rise up
We were sitting around a table spread with pads, pens and leftovers a few feet off of Beale Street in Memphis. We had a two-day staff retreat for Area Relief Ministries, and we were closing up our...
View Articlebecause you did not ask
The questions that learning leaders pose challenge their followers to see complexities and interrelationships in [major issues] and launch inquiries that stretch the bounds of their worldview....
View Articlegood men and the practice of resistance [PART 1]: a guest post by Wes Gristy
There’s a line in a song called The Resistance by Josh Garrels that haunts me. It comes at the end of the first verse. After poetically describing the power structures of this world that abuse the...
View Articlegood men and the practice of resistance [part 2]
It’s easy to sit in our offices or living rooms, around kitchen tables or restaurant tables, and talk about what we would do if we were in someone else’s shoes. We see others as those in positions of...
View Articlean end to preludes
There is a rumble of insistence for an end to preludes without their symphonies. Beyond announcements and proclamations, beyond ceremonies and unveilings, crowds of regular people gather who are still...
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