By: Jonita Fair-Payton on November 1, 2023
“I firmly believe that kingdom-seeking, God-honoring, biblically rooted leadership needs to learn how to hear God’s voice. Leaders must lead from a divine center with a heart in tune with the heart of God, forming a holy partnership that results in fulfilling the purposes of God on earth.”(1) Leadership Vibrations This book was music to…
By: Pam Lau on October 31, 2023
The Many Voices of Leadership As I look for book titles on leadership on Amazon, I find more than 30,000 results. It’s overwhelming. Advice on leading seems to have no limits. Lead out of who you are Selfish leadership Become a multiplier. Become good to great. Coaching as leadership. Trust and inspire A Leader’s…
By: Becca Hald on October 31, 2023
Less than two minutes was all it took. I was at a women’s retreat and they had just started worship. The sound was so bad that I did not even have the time to put in my earplugs. I ran out into the hallway, but it was too late. I could feel the migraine coming…
By: Alana Hayes on October 31, 2023
“Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment” is a book by Francis Fukuyama. He makes the bold statement at the first of the book that without the two surprise elections that year in Britain and in America he wouldn’t have written this book at all! This book looks at the concept of…
By: Tim Clark on October 31, 2023
In the TV show Ted Lasso, the character Dani Rojas has a catchphrase: “Football is life”. I love the show Ted Lasso. And I adore Dani Rojas’. But I disagree with him. If I had a catchphrase, it would be “Music is life”. My mom said that when I was born, the doctor was singing…
By: Kim Sanford on October 31, 2023
After a little more than a year of doctoral studies in leadership, I don’t suppose we’re experts yet, but I do think we can draw a few solid conclusions. Can we all agree that a good approach to God-honoring leadership might be:1. Leading by means of compelling vision2. Maintaining an unimpeachable character 3. Influencing rather…
By: Audrey Robinson on October 30, 2023
Introduction Postmodernism is a complex and multifaceted intellectual movement that emerged in the mid-20th Century. It challenges the modernist belief in universal truths, grand narratives, and the idea of objective reality. Postmodernists argue that social, cultural, and historical contexts shape all knowledge and reality.[1] While postmodernism has influenced various fields, including art, literature, and politics,…
By: Travis Vaughn on October 30, 2023
In The Sound of Leadership, Jules Glanzer compares the exercise of leadership to the experience of sound, drawing on a definition of leadership put forward by Leonard Sweet: “Leadership is an acoustical art.”[1] In my opinion, the analogies of sound to leadership could be a fascinating supplement to Simon Walker’s ecology of power, or Kurt…
By: Alana Hayes on October 30, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a somewhat unavoidable, almost interconnected part of our lives. It has changed fields around the world such as education. With the rapid growth of the AI as a whole, students can now have access to an array of tools and services that can help them not only study more effectively…
By: John Fehlen on October 30, 2023
I don’t recommend being in Las Vegas on a Friday night. Overall, Vegas is a dumpster fire wrapped in a train wreck. That is, unless, you are in Las Vegas with your best friends, to see [arguably] the best band in the world, U2, at the best venue currently in the world: The Sphere. Google…
By: Jennifer Vernam on October 30, 2023
Goodreads lists[1] Glanzer’s The Sound of Leadership as “a collection of leadership insights,”[2] which would be the beginning of my description of this book if someone were to notice it on my coffee table. However, those five words do not do it full justice, as I found this book to serve as a reminder of…
By: Laura Fleetwood on October 29, 2023
The search for Truth has been at the center of war, politics, religion, science, technology, art and most of the conflict that our world has experienced over millennia. In this sense, it extends far beyond the philosophical realm into the very fabric of our lives. Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, sets out…
By: Alana Hayes on October 29, 2023
“Lloyd powerfully joins a growing and urgent literature on the relationship among civic ideals, political and social morality, racial identity, and the emotions. I suspect Black Dignity will quickly become a fixture in conversations concerning visions of America against the backdrop of racial violence and inequity.”—Christopher J. Lebron, author of The Making of Black Lives…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on October 29, 2023
Introduction In his book “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” author Stephen R. C. Hicks explores the philosophy of postmodernism and its effects on politics, cultural practices, and individual lives. Hicks argues that postmodernism, with its emphasis on skepticism and rejection of objective Truth, has its roots in the philosophical and political ideas of…
By: Michael O'Neill on October 27, 2023
Traffic is probable on a commute that I make each week, both ways. My two ridiculous-looking dogs (see below) and I leave consistently on Tuesdays in the evening, just as rush hour is in full throttle. I add to the congestion the next morning right on cue with thousands of other metro-Detroit, Ann Arbor, and…
By: Jana Dluehosh on October 27, 2023
Strange title huh. I want to start by saying, as I have heard by some of you say and I quote “this is hard”. Yep, it is! I have to be honest, I am struggling trying to find interest in the topics this semester. I’m struggling hard, and I am also struggling with my NPO…
By: Alana Hayes on October 27, 2023
Explaining Postmodernism: What is he talking about anyway? In his book “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” author Stephen R. C. Hicks explores the philosophy of postmodernism and its effects on politics, cultural practices, and individual lives. His book takes a dive into the history, major figures, and contemporary ramifications of postmodernism.…
By: Chad McSwain on October 27, 2023
It is the moment that I can’t stop thinking about. It occurred during my ordination interviews in the dreaded Theology Room. I had written about the temptations of Jesus and offered an interpretation of Jesus struggling with self-reliance, power, and self-preservation. The critique came: “Being middle-class, would you read this story differently if you were…
By: Caleb Lu on October 27, 2023
There was a general hush over the room as our ultrasound technician took measurements for our first “growth scan”. The chipper answering of questions became a more muted “we’ll have to wait for the doctor to answer that”. We would discover in the following hour that the baby’s abdominal circumference was measuring small, an indicator…
By: Dinka Utomo on October 27, 2023
“Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.” -Karl Polanyi- On every occasion when I contemplate international travel, my preparations include…
