Results for Leadership
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Anglican Breakaway Groups Confront New Power Struggle
Originally Posted: 02/09/2012 - 6:47pm | Type: Blog -
The saga of the Anglican Mission in the Americas sounds like the words to an old country song: "Why have you left the one you left me for?" The saga of the Anglican Mission i ...
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Jim Wallis and Richard Land: Join the Great Conversation
Originally Posted: 11/03/2011 - 10:58am | Type: Blog -
Last night, at the National Press Club here in Washington D.C., the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and Sojourners co-sponsored a conversation between Richard L ...
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Farewell to Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights Hero
Originally Posted: 10/06/2011 - 11:00am | Type: Blog -
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer and giant of the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 89. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer and giant of the civil rights moveme ...
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A Decade of War (and Football)
Originally Posted: 10/05/2011 - 2:49pm | Type: Blog -
Let’s face it — while lawmakers are picking their own battles in Washington, they aren’t fighting on the ground in Afghanistan. Not to date myself, but I was in middle schoo ...
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The Gospel Should Be Offensive
Originally Posted: 10/05/2011 - 8:53am | Type: Blog -
Before Jesus was born, his mother Mary predicted that he would offend some people. In the Magnificat she sang: "He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the pow ...
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Separation (of Church and State) Anxiety
Originally Posted: 10/05/2011 - 6:24am | Type: Blog -
Part of a university education is learning how to navigate the complicated and often competing value systems of different social groups. Part of a university education is learnin ...
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What is 'Biblical Politics'?
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
Sojourners has always tried to understand and advocate for "biblical politics." But what does that mean now, especially as we approach another major election? Sojourners ha ...
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Missing Servant Leaders on Corporate Tax Responsibility
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
We're sorely missing the servant leadership of America's CEOs on matters of corporate taxation. We're sorely missing the servant leadership of America's CEOs on mat ...
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Martin Luther King's Other Dream
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
The forthcoming dedication of the national memorial monument honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., affords an opening for considering the complexity and meaning of his leadership. ...
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Our Dark Night
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
They say at some point in their lives great leaders experience a "dark night of the soul," or a period in life when your feet, knees, and face scrape and stick to the proverbial bottom. ...