Marginal Christianity

http://jrwoodward.net/2010/02/leadership-on-the-line-by-heifetz-and-linsky-a-proactive-report/ FEBRUARY 3, 2010   The nature of a proactive report is that you go into the book with a few questions that you hope to answer.  It starts with an overview of the book, then a set of questions and finishes with a summary and synthesis.  So here are my thoughts on Leadership on the Line. Overview   Heifetz and Linsky in  Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading , not only encourage us to put our life and ideas on the line, but they remind us of the dangers of leadership and how to respond to the risks in healthy ways. They don’t just answer the question of how to lead; they call us to think about why we should lead. They help us to see that while leading has its demands and costs, leading has the potential to enrich many lives, including the life of those who choose to lead. Because Heifetz and Linsky are fully aware of th...

http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/10/stanley-hauerwas-on-reformation-sunday/ 29 October 1995 by Stanley Hauerwas Joel 2:23-32 – 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 – Luke 18:9-14 Wittenberg Door I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually I have to put it more strongly than that. I do not like Reformation Sunday, period. I do not understand why it is part of the church year. Reformation Sunday does not name a happy event for the Church Catholic; on the contrary, it names failure. Of course, the church rightly names failure, or at least horror, as part of our church year. We do, after all, go through crucifixion as part of Holy Week. Certainly if the Reformation is to be narrated rightly, it is to be narrated as part of those dark days. Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success. But when we make Reformation a success, it only en...