In my last Musing (“If You are the ‘Boss,” How do you Lead”?), I presented a case for a collaborative approach to leadership, in sharp contrast to a top-down leadership style. The more in-depth analysis that follows includes my elaboration on these two styles of leadership. As in my last Musing, I will focus on […]
I use the word “boss” in a broad sense, as referring to anyone who has one or more persons who work under his/her leadership. My passionate belief about what I believe to be the primary skill needed to be an effective “boss” is deeply informed by the following foundational teaching from Parker Palmer, a renowned […]
My experience is that attempts at conversations about the future of Democracy in America are significantly hampered by lack of clarity as to the meaning of two controversial words, “liberalism” and “antiliberalism.” Therefore, I first need to make clear what I believe those two words mean, drawing heavily on the splendid recent book by Robert […]
My last Musing (“Formulate Your Own Set of Christian Values”) proposed a broad view of God’s redemptive purposes for our world. It left some important questions unanswered, such as “how” one can “partner with God” toward the realization of these values, and, since no one Christian can focus on all of God’s redemptive purposes, how […]
The values that I seek to foster on a daily basis reflect my understanding of God’s redemptive purposes on earth. I believe that as a “follower of Jesus,” I should seek to “partner with God” toward the realization of these purposes, which, in a manner that I cannot begin to comprehend, will be “fully realized” […]
My last Musing (“Seeing Through Partisan Politics or the Eyes of Jesus”) raised some important questions that were left unanswered; questions that beg for more in-depth analysis. What follows is a coherent set of four essays that provide this “deeper” analysis The first essay by Harold Heie poses and reflects on the overarching question posed […]
For my new Musings into the near future, I will often follow a pattern of posting two back-to-back Musings that are inter-related. The first Musing will be directed primarily to users of social media; it will be relatively brief, using “popular language” that can easily and quickly digested. The follow-up Musing will be geared to […]
Jesus was not spared the temptation to become all-powerful. Tim Alberta starts his thought-provoking book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, by quoting the following words recorded in Luke 4:5-8 (KJ21): And the devil, taking Him up into a high mountain, showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of […]
In our increasingly polarized and tribalistic culture, the desire to exert power over others is rampant. I point my readers to two examples. In the political realm, it appears that many politicians will do most anything to get elected to legislative office, or re-elected once in office. Why is that? It is my belief that […]
In the past 25 years, 40 million persons in America (15% of the USA population) who self-identify as “Evangelicals” have left the institutional church. Why is that? And is there a way to “bring them back?” In in their excellent book The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham, with Ryan P Burge, wrestle with […]
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