When to Partner and When to Go Solo
A primary duty of any leader is to make decisions that move the work toward designated goals in the most efficient ways possible. Some of these decisions will be whether the work moves forward with the team at hand or through a partnership with another team or even another organization. Over the years, I’ve been…
Continuing to Learn
Last week, we had a guest professor, Hule Goddard, lead us through our spiritual formation module. The first thing we did was go on a sunrise walk where we started out by walking in silence to see and hear God’s creation. Then we did an outdoor exegesis in which we read Psalms 19:1-5 and when…
The Sad State of Student Culture on College Campuses
In their 1995 book, The Abandoned Generation, higher education leaders Will Willimon and Tom Naylor persuasively argued that student culture on far too many college and university campuses was characterized by vice instead of virtue and specifically, that most students have an anti-intellectual outlook regarding their higher education journeys. Over twenty years later, both research…
