In its own way, I suspect this is as relevant to business and government and even leading your local soccer club as it is to the church.
… I think many of the proposals about leadership are quite perverse exactly because it gives the impression that you know what leadership is, abstracted from communities that make leadership possible.
What he teaches his students about leadership:
Don’t lie. It’s just very simple. Don’t lie to me. You may often times not know what the truth is: tell me that. Just don’t lie to me. It kills you. It kills me. And it kills the community.
Your Correspondent, Can’t lead the cavalry charge since he looks stupid on a horse
I’d lead the cavalry but the Second Republic also needs theologians.
theologian laureate sounds like a wonderfully evil job title!
Love it.