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Near the end of the book Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation, Kent Carlson summarizes some of his deepest concern about the challenges of the church in North America. While I'm not sure I agree with his final driving metaphor about "wineskins" bursting all over the place, I do …
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My continued reflections on pastoral ministry, the church, and what it means to be in ministry in North America led me back to Thomas Oden's Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry. I first read this book while still an undergrad at Wheaton College but enrolled with special permission in a graduate level class entitle "Pastoral Ministry," I …
In my previous posts on Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, I summarized their key assumptions in the book, the definition of the dark side, how the dark side develops, and five dark-side issues leaders often encounter. In this final post on the book, I turn to the third, …
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Continuing with my exploration of Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, in the second part of the book the authors give attention to what they call "five dark-side issues experienced most often by leaders" (16). They group those dark-side issues into individual chapters that describe in greater detail what each …
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In chapter five of Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, Gary McIntosh and Samuel Rima explore how the dark side of leadership develops in our lives. Though we may not be aware of its presence, we have been impacted by the dark side throughout our life. There are definite signs we can become sensitive to that …
Matthew Erickson 