Rising Leader, Song for May. Listen => Struggle (on our dark night of the soul) You are a leader. No matter what level on the leadership pyramid you occupy, it is inevitable that some day, in some way, your ethics will be tested. For those privileged to reach the peak– especially in politics, business and science– powerful tools and resources will be at…

Rising Leader, New– Song for May. Listen => Struggle (on our dark night of the soul) The letters I’ve been sending you each week follow four quarterly themes: Who is God? (Q1); Who am I? (Q2); Where’s the Need? (Q3) and What’s my a call? (Q4). For the past five weeks, the “Who am I?” letters have touched on five personas: sinner, saint, sojourner…

Rising Leader, Song for April. Listen => Between the Moments (on Christ’s faithfulness, despite our disconnectedness) It is the habit of our times to separate our world lives from our faith lives. But this is silliness. Our faith teaches us how to live our lives in the world– how to see God in all people and things, and how to respond to His call…

Rising Leader, Song for April. Listen => Between the Moments (on Christ’s faithfulness, despite our disconnectedness) Our world needs leaders who seek. If you are a seeker, you resist settled certitude. You keep probing attitude and belief. You know that superficial experience is just the tip of the iceberg; there is a much deeper reality below the surface. …

Rising Leader, Song for April. Listen => Between the Moments (on Christ’s faithfulness, despite our disconnectedness) In her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day describes her long journey from radicalized non-believer, committed to class warfare, through a period of doubt and deep self-reflection, through a faith conversion, and on to a God-committed life serving the poor and pursuing social justice.

Rising Leader, New– Song for April. Listen => Between the Moments (on Christ’s faithfulness, despite our disconnectedness) On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of a City of Montgomery, Alabama bus. A young pastor from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church named Martin Luther King, Jr. gathered up a small group of local civil rights leaders and mobilized a…

Rising Leader, New– Song for April. Listen => Between the Moments (on Christ’s faithfulness, despite our disconnectedness) If there were to be a sinner’s hall of fame, John Newton would be in it. Born of a mother who died young and a father who put him to sea at age 11, Newton was a reckless and disagreeable drunk in his youth. As he came of…

Rising Leader, Song for March. Listen => Love You More (on the reach of Jesus’ love for us) In Jesus, God pierced the veil between Heaven and Earth. To recover lost humanity, God took on human form. He became immanent — Immanuel– the Word made flesh. Son of the Living God, He ministered to the marginalized, healed the hurting and forgave the repentant. But He didn’t…

Rising Leader, Song for March. Listen => Love You More (on the reach of Jesus’ love for us) At eight years old, on the morning of my mother’s suicide, after my father had sat me down on the couch to shatter my world, while our church minister and a couple of police officers shuffled around talking to Dad in our living room, I gathered my six-year…