“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.” -C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis on Suffering and Free Will, by Maria Popova
Three Practices to Repair Relational Ruptures, by Todd W. Hall, PhD.
In all my relationships—but especially with the people I lead—my job is to go first in doing everything I can to repair the rupture.
LOST Lessons of Leadership 3: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Authoritarian Leadership Learns to Serve
The second season of LOST introduces yet a third approach to leadership in the person of Dr. Benjamin Linus. As evidenced in the clip below, Ben is the most dangerous type of leader in the postmodern world—a pseudo servant leader, or “power broker.”
LOST Lessons of Leadership 2: Jack’s Position of Power – Service for the Common Good
In contrast to the “asshole” style of leadership evidenced by Sawyer and his gun (see, Lesson 1), the first season of LOST open’s with a compelling story of a radically different approach: service.
LOST Lessons of Leadership: What the Island Taught Me About Heroic Character
Like all authoritarian leaders, Sawyer understood that a leadership position is often wielded very much like a gun.
One of the key storylines of LOST’s first season is the tension between Jack (Matthew Fox) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) for leadership of the small band of plane crash survivors desperately seeking to balance the twin goals of survival and rescue.
Father’s Day 2014: A Tribute and Two Poems for my Dad
It’s been two years since my Dad went into the presence of the Lord on Father’s Day weekend 2012. I can think of no better way to honor him this Father’s Day than to repost the Tribute I wrote for his Memorial service together with two poems I wrote for him growing up. I hope they help you celebrate and cherish your Father today.
A Conversation with Visual Artists Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman re “QU4RTETS”
Cairn University hosted an exhibition of QU4RTETS, a collaborative response to T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” in word, image, and music, by Jeremy Begbie, Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, and Christopher Theofanidis. Artists Fujimura and Herman presented this gallery talk about their paintings.
Millennials: Big Career Goals, Limited Job Prospects, by David Kinnaman
With college debt at an all-time high and twenty-something employment at an all-time low, only 47% of Millennial graduates believe attending college was ‘worth it.’
The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: René Girard and The Dark Knight, by Charles Bellinger, PhD
Part 2 in series: René Girard: The Greatest Christian Intellectual You Never Heard of Christ is not a character in the movie, but he is present throughout, in the sense that his defeat of Satan on the cross, through nonviolent love, put…
Hollywood’s Fault and ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ by Marc Erlbaum
With a spate of teen fantasy films transporting us from reality over the past several years, TFIOS is a welcome return to the world that we actually inhabit.
The Real Stories in the Seattle Pacific University Shooting
With Cable news channels predictably focused on the shooter, we thought we’d give you some more important perspectives to guide your prayers.
Current Films by Act One Graduates Reveal Strange Dichotomy in Box Office Mojo’s ‘Christian Movie’ Category
Clare Sera’s BLENDED and Andrea Nasfell’s MOM’S NIGHT OUT highlight the strange dichotomy between ‘Christian’ movies and the rest of Hollywood. The legitimacy and media attention are nice, but is it really a good thing for faith-based filmmaking?