<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250</id><updated>2012-02-16T08:29:10.036-06:00</updated><category term='theory'/><category term='Jesus'/><category term='biblical'/><title type='text'>2nd Generation Leadership</title><subtitle type='html'>Biblical, spiritual leaders are always second-generation leaders through whom the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work to redeem and restore others to God.  (Philippians 2:20-22). Every leader's vision, power, influence, calling, and wisdom comes from outside themselves. No leader stands at the top, but in the middle.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-3873342546992366972</id><published>2009-04-17T10:55:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-17T14:55:24.786-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Solomon the Little Child</title><summary type='text'>Solomon's Request: A Humble Posture for Biblical LeadersGod appears to Solomon in a dream and says He will give Solomon whatever he asks for (1 Kings 3:7-9). Solomon's request, perhaps unusual in a young man having just assumed a king's crown, provides a snapshot of a fundamental truth of Biblical leadership: humility and human weakness seeking God's wisdom and presence. “Now, O Lord my God, you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/3873342546992366972/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=3873342546992366972&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3873342546992366972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3873342546992366972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2009/04/solomon-little-child.html' title='Solomon the Little Child'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2773419781900851465</id><published>2009-03-30T16:49:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T16:49:13.048-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama &amp; The Socialist States of America</title><summary type='text'>If there was any doubt that authoritarian socialism was former Senator (and community organizer) Obama's end game, his move to take over the reigns of GM should end them.Read about it here http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090330/D978JKVO1.htmlor herehttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/30/obama-auto/-----------------------Trivia question: Name one major social problem the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2773419781900851465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2773419781900851465&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2773419781900851465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2773419781900851465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-socialist-states-of-america.html' title='Obama &amp;amp; The Socialist States of America'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-3707823555180477435</id><published>2009-03-30T09:58:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T21:16:38.431-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biblical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jesus'/><title type='text'>Redemptive Leadership: Jesus as Servant, Jesus as Ransom</title><summary type='text'>The following was in response to a web discussion on the leadership of Jesus:The 'Jesus-as-servant' motif of leadership undeniably takes us beyond a secular, humanistic perspective on relationships and social structure.We have to go further still. I can't think of any "Christian model" or view of leadership that gives serious attention to the REST of the passage about Jesus coming to serve rather</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/3707823555180477435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=3707823555180477435&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3707823555180477435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3707823555180477435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2009/03/redemptive-leadership-jesus-as-servant.html' title='Redemptive Leadership: Jesus as Servant, Jesus as Ransom'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5926966012109003873</id><published>2008-11-15T07:30:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T09:58:13.822-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><title type='text'>Leadership: Is it a 'thing'?</title><summary type='text'>Comps are now over. My last written question fascinated me: is it possible to have a unified or general theory of leadership? Einstein's (and others) great quest in physics, if you recall, was for a general theory of relativity describes how gravity interacts with space and time. The general theory unified a vast array of other ideas and theoretical pieces and radically changed the scientific </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5926966012109003873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5926966012109003873&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5926966012109003873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5926966012109003873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/11/leadership-is-it-thing.html' title='Leadership: Is it a &apos;thing&apos;?'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2494858597955767255</id><published>2008-11-06T08:31:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T11:32:40.990-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Take that, GOP!</title><summary type='text'>This interesting piece from AP. To wit:Plenty of Republicans from the conservative to the liberal wings of the party agree the GOP is in shambles as the Bush presidency comes to a close, leaving the party without a titular leader when the president's term ends in January...RNC Chairman Duncan said it would be wrong to view the election results as "the death rattle of American conservatism," </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2494858597955767255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2494858597955767255&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2494858597955767255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2494858597955767255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/11/take-that-gop.html' title='Take that, GOP!'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5008913664760474648</id><published>2008-11-05T15:31:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T17:02:46.085-06:00</updated><title type='text'>So now what?</title><summary type='text'>Okay, some of my off-the-cuff musings about the election yesterday...President-elect Obama has promised showers of blessings and a veritable cornucopia of well-being to an unthinking American public, and we bought it. Charisma, charm, and the perception of "appearing Presidential on TV" carried the day. 52% of Americans reacted out of fear and a sense of despair manufactured by the main-stream </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5008913664760474648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5008913664760474648&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5008913664760474648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5008913664760474648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-now-what.html' title='So now what?'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5418655871650669556</id><published>2008-11-03T10:54:00.011-06:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T13:34:31.479-06:00</updated><title type='text'>In Leadership, Character Matters</title><summary type='text'>http://www.youtube.com/v/VIdbYjmbFzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1'Somebody emailed me this YouTube link. As shown in some of the comments, many are outraged as to the claims and presentation of the video's subject.Contrary to many of these claims, both the video and its claims are true. The lady's name is Jill Stanek (www.jillstanek.com) and she was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL. Read her bio here. On</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5418655871650669556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5418655871650669556&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5418655871650669556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5418655871650669556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-leadership-character-matters.html' title='In Leadership, Character Matters'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2046543282396023467</id><published>2008-10-29T13:45:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T14:25:26.672-05:00</updated><title type='text'>More Thoughts on Followership</title><summary type='text'>OBEDIENCE | For the sake of conversation, I share this concept of followership as obedience or submission. This captures both the leadership and the followership of Jesus. Jesus said that the core of his mission was "to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work" (John 4:34, NIV). In his priestly prayer, Jesus acknowledged that "I have brought you glory on earth by doing the work you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2046543282396023467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2046543282396023467&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2046543282396023467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2046543282396023467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-thoughts-on-followership.html' title='More Thoughts on Followership'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-8892184716726952712</id><published>2008-10-13T11:30:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T22:25:22.535-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Who (Really) are Followers?</title><summary type='text'>Who and what are followers and how are they really different from leaders?Successful leaders and successful followers share the same basic characteristics: visionary, decisive, communicative, energetic, committed, and responsible. Effective followers possess integrity, have a sense of ownership in the organization, demonstrate versatility and flexibility, and take responsibility for their own </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/8892184716726952712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=8892184716726952712&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/8892184716726952712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/8892184716726952712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-really-are-followers.html' title='Who (Really) are Followers?'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQikmEOjpbI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Rz1TlLpLMSw/s72-c/hands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-810529050840262568</id><published>2008-09-29T09:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T11:22:27.781-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Complexity and Leadership</title><summary type='text'>A complex group can be understood as a web of interactions between group members, outside contextual dynamics, and the parameters of the group as its own system. For leadership research, this provides three vantage points of study: member/member interactions, group-as-system/context interactions, and member/context interactions. Complexity suggests that any individual part of a system (a person, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/810529050840262568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=810529050840262568&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/810529050840262568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/810529050840262568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/10/complexity-and-leadership.html' title='Complexity and Leadership'/><author><name>Bryan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02060937158629113494</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFsdf8JTcw8/SQiJXXJlC3I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/KZQ_3_w3Lys/S220/Photo+24.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2159324076358461716</id><published>2008-07-25T15:29:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T15:52:59.049-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Finishing Well</title><summary type='text'>I've been doing some work for a course on the topic of how leaders "finish well." Finishing well describes how leaders prepare for and engage life after their transition into retirement. Bob Buford, in Finishing Well, calls this stage Life II. Buford further observes that finding significance and meaning in Life II is often difficult for leaders, especially those who have had tremendous </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2159324076358461716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2159324076358461716&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2159324076358461716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2159324076358461716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/07/finishing-well.html' title='Finishing Well'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-4497568509298363272</id><published>2008-05-20T13:15:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T13:15:48.503-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Prospectors and Defenders</title><summary type='text'>Miles and Snow describe four basic archetypes – overarching categories – of how organizations tend to function. Defenders value stability and tradition. Their market focus is narrow and deep, surviving through price or product quality. Structure is formal with centralized control. They are avoiders of change. Prospectors are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They value innovation, creativity, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/4497568509298363272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=4497568509298363272&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4497568509298363272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4497568509298363272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/05/prospectors-and-defenders.html' title='Prospectors and Defenders'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5250134985123807111</id><published>2008-02-05T14:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T15:23:52.706-06:00</updated><title type='text'>DNA of Biblical Leadership</title><summary type='text'>Over lunch recently, Dr. Ron Smith, President of Wesley Biblical Seminary (and my boss), and I were discussing church leadership dynamics concerning the roles of preacher and pastor. He shared a concept from Scripture I found fascinating as a basic church leadership framework. Based on Ephesians 4:11-13, there are four "offices" or roles that together make up leadership in the church. For there </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5250134985123807111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5250134985123807111&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5250134985123807111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5250134985123807111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2008/02/dna-of-biblical-leadership.html' title='DNA of Biblical Leadership'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-7805775567361894161</id><published>2007-11-01T16:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:31:16.430-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Leadership through Trinitarian lenses</title><summary type='text'>The recent trends in organizational studies of spirituality, relationality, complexity, authenticity, and servanthood echo key themes in Christian theology, especially the doctrine of the Trinity. I’ve become convinced that looking at leadership through a distinctly Christian Trinitarian lens will provide a robust, holistic, and powerful construct for leadership theory and practice. While my own </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/7805775567361894161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=7805775567361894161&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7805775567361894161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7805775567361894161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/11/leadership-through-trinitarian-lenses.html' title='Leadership through Trinitarian lenses'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__gmKlw2rayE/RypIg9xiN4I/AAAAAAAAAow/feuDW6hE_PY/s72-c/ripple.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-4969274304899277749</id><published>2007-11-01T16:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:31:16.627-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Leadership: No Such Thing?</title><summary type='text'>What is Leadership?I resonate with Richard Barker's argument that leadership still isn't really a construct. Leadership studies are all over the map and almost every scholar you read has a different definition, many of which are contradictory.It seems often that almost anything can be leadership to the point that everything is leadership, which makes nothing leadership. So says Washbush in his </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/4969274304899277749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=4969274304899277749&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4969274304899277749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4969274304899277749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/11/leadership-no-such-thing.html' title='Leadership: No Such Thing?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__gmKlw2rayE/RypF19xiN3I/AAAAAAAAAoo/Prpn0bVdypE/s72-c/CN0734.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-3314327765171898917</id><published>2007-10-06T21:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-06T21:21:56.144-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My Trouble with Biblical Models</title><summary type='text'>I am drawn intuitively, personally, and theologically to complexity theory as a substantial means of explaining and understanding organizational life. I particularly react to the premise of leadership as a single leader with particular traits and characteristics who leverages these in order to get people—who, of course, couldn't otherwise figure out on their own how or what to do—to move in the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/3314327765171898917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=3314327765171898917&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3314327765171898917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/3314327765171898917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-trouble-with-biblical-models.html' title='My Trouble with Biblical Models'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-294119928403812088</id><published>2007-09-11T20:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T20:59:20.786-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Faith and Christian Scholarship</title><summary type='text'>If we 'unhook' our Christian framework from the discussion of spirituality in the marketplace, we perpetuate the discouragement of "free intellectual inquiry" (Sirico, 2002, p.34), and, in so doing, offer nothing meaningful to academe. We become, in effect, theistic existentialists who say that although (for us) truth is rooted in God, it's validity to the non-Christian academy is only "</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/294119928403812088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=294119928403812088&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/294119928403812088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/294119928403812088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/09/faith-and-christian-scholarship.html' title='Faith and Christian Scholarship'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2243286673999176636</id><published>2007-08-09T23:29:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T10:42:18.495-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Transcendence in leadership</title><summary type='text'>Max du Pree (Leadership is an Art) says that the primary responsibility of leaders is to define reality. Henri Nouwen (1989) wrote that the task of Christian leaders is to "identify and announce the ways in which Jesus is leading God's people out of slavery" (p. 87) rather than making a "contribution to the solution of the pains and tribulations of their time" (p. 87). While the second statement </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2243286673999176636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2243286673999176636&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2243286673999176636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2243286673999176636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/08/transcendence-in-leadership.html' title='Transcendence in leadership'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-1166584406416374461</id><published>2007-08-09T23:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-08-09T23:22:02.077-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Leadership as Obedience rather than Service</title><summary type='text'>I recently wrote an article entitled "Kenosis and the Leadership of Jesus: A Sacred Texture Analysis of the Philippians Hymn." Here is the conclusion to that article.In summary, Jesus’ leadership as seen through a sacred texture analysis of Philippians 2:5-11 reveals three major truths. First, the beginning posture of Christ as a servant is not service towards humanity, but humble obedience and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/1166584406416374461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=1166584406416374461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1166584406416374461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1166584406416374461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/08/leadership-as-obedience-rather-than.html' title='Leadership as Obedience rather than Service'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-7880268851699280715</id><published>2007-06-06T09:42:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T22:35:24.989-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Secret to Power-full Leadership</title><summary type='text'>Calvin Miller writes in The Empowered Leader, "the cross of Christ is the focus for all who commit themselves to leadership. The cross proves that anytime we take ultimate steps to obey God, human opinion can move swiftly against us...We best exonerate our leadership by reckoning ourselves dead to our ambition. Those who crucify themselves have nothing to lose."Leaders who have died to themselves</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/7880268851699280715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=7880268851699280715&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7880268851699280715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7880268851699280715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/06/secret-to-power-full-leadership.html' title='Secret to Power-full Leadership'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-731441854189310011</id><published>2007-05-17T09:57:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-05-17T10:10:06.412-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Leadership Functions &amp; Spiritual Gifts</title><summary type='text'>I ran across this from Dr. Paul Ford, a consultant with ChurchSmart Resources, the US partner for Natural Church Development (recommended for church health). Ford sees leadership within the church as a "series of functions carried out by a group of people, not just a job filled by only one person." This perspective places a high priority on spiritual gifts, a key dimension of the shared life of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/731441854189310011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=731441854189310011&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/731441854189310011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/731441854189310011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/05/leadership-functions-spiritual-gifts.html' title='Leadership Functions &amp;amp; Spiritual Gifts'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5995462599496050287</id><published>2007-05-10T08:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T09:23:14.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Leader's Most Important Attribute</title><summary type='text'>A recent Sunday School class I was visiting engaged in a discussion about desirable characteristics of Christian leadership. Each class member was asked to rate five characteristics in order from least important to most important. The leader then tallied the totals and the class discussed the differences revealed in the exercise.The five characteristics were prayerful, persuasive, pastoral, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5995462599496050287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5995462599496050287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5995462599496050287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5995462599496050287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/05/leader-most-important-attribute.html' title='Leader&amp;#39;s Most Important Attribute'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2512421902589663415</id><published>2007-05-02T13:29:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T22:38:17.428-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Who's your moral leader?</title><summary type='text'>From Bob Novak's latest Political Report (5/2/07):Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) had a deer-in-the-headlights moment not unlike the one President Bush had in his first debate with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004. It was made worse by the fact that he did so on a softball question. When asked whom he considered his moral leader, Edwards took nearly 10 seconds to fumble around and finally name</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2512421902589663415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2512421902589663415&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2512421902589663415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2512421902589663415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/05/whose-your-moral-leader.html' title='Who&apos;s your moral leader?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2568124250358789115</id><published>2007-05-01T15:52:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-05-17T10:11:40.668-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Who are good leaders?</title><summary type='text'>A friend of mine just asked me over lunch, "Who are some good leaders?" Having been wrestling on some writing projects involving different categories of leadership, I instantly thought about all the different ways that question could be answered. Based on what, I thought to myself, achievement, character, integrity, amount of influence, reputation, size of organization, personal relationships? </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2568124250358789115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2568124250358789115&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2568124250358789115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2568124250358789115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-are-good-leaders_01.html' title='Who are good leaders?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-517156588552900914</id><published>2007-04-30T15:02:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T22:40:01.649-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Vision cloaked as personal ambition</title><summary type='text'>From Upside Down: The Paradox of Servant Leadership by Stacy Rinehart: What is called 'vision' can be merely a 'spiritually correct' synonym for personal ambition...Visionaries operating in the flesh promote messages like these: 'If you're not getting my vision, you're not listening to God, or you are spiritually immature and inferior.' 'This is the only true spiritual vision around here. If you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/517156588552900914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=517156588552900914&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/517156588552900914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/517156588552900914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/vision-cloaked-as-personal-ambition.html' title='Vision cloaked as personal ambition'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-6285854075453482659</id><published>2007-04-24T20:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T21:01:05.365-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Biblical Insights of Leadership, part 2</title><summary type='text'>Leadership is a fundamental Biblical activity. There are at least three insights from Scripture that offer a glimpse of what leadership is in the biblical perspective.Part 2: Divine calling and obedience. God purposefully chose Moses to be a human leader in God's act of delivering the Israelites out of slavery. God called Moses in a personal fashion (Exodus 3:10), and, although Moses recognized </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/6285854075453482659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=6285854075453482659&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/6285854075453482659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/6285854075453482659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/biblical-insights-of-leadership-part-2.html' title='Biblical Insights of Leadership, part 2'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-1430264524735762548</id><published>2007-04-19T12:56:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T13:03:16.142-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Transforming the Leader</title><summary type='text'>Moral character and virtue play a significant role in leadership. Current research is growing more and more convinced of the vital role that spirituality and ethics play in leadership. One theory that gives more attention to this than most any other is servant leadership1. Servant leadership comes from moral love (agape) and is expressed in selfless service to others. Servant leadership is rooted</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/1430264524735762548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=1430264524735762548&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1430264524735762548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1430264524735762548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/transforming-leader_19.html' title='Transforming the Leader'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-8450854464837627176</id><published>2007-04-18T14:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T22:45:11.449-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Paradox of Power and Service</title><summary type='text'>Servant leadership is seen as a paradox of leading through giving up power and serving others. This oxymoron is usually framed as a contrast of power and service. A biblical understanding of human sinfulness and salvation reveals, however, the real contrast is not power versus service, but service versus self-interest. The opposite of true servant leadership is self-centered, egotistical pride. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/8450854464837627176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=8450854464837627176&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/8450854464837627176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/8450854464837627176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/paradox-of-power-and-service.html' title='The Paradox of Power and Service'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-2313536443318110662</id><published>2007-04-05T17:13:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T17:14:28.052-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Leadership Under Authority</title><summary type='text'>My doctoral colleague, David Wright, posted the following in a recent discussion forum:"…leadership is never totally mastered and leadership means being led...When I consider the topic of leadership I have the following portion of scripture as a foundation:And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/2313536443318110662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=2313536443318110662&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2313536443318110662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/2313536443318110662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/leadership-under-authority_05.html' title='Leadership Under Authority'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-5024137567961856226</id><published>2007-04-03T16:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T16:44:35.166-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Living this love is not so easy</title><summary type='text'>Newly knighted Bono's confession:"My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. What does that mean? What it means for me: a study of the life of Christ," Bono says. "Love here describes itself as a child born in straw poverty, the most vulnerable situation of all, without honor. . . . God is love, and as much as I respond [sighs</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/5024137567961856226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=5024137567961856226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5024137567961856226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/5024137567961856226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/living-this-love-is-not-so-easy.html' title='Living this love is not so easy'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-4244605094084159226</id><published>2007-04-02T11:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:31:16.962-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Biblical Insights of Leadership, part 1</title><summary type='text'>Leadership is a fundamental Biblical activity. There are at least three insights from Scripture that offer a glimpse of what leadership is in the biblical perspective.Part 1: Dominion and creativity. Man (species, not gender) was given responsibility over both the environment (Genesis 2:15) and other life (naming of animals in Genesis 2:20). Fundamental to humanity's purpose is work, stewardship,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/4244605094084159226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=4244605094084159226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4244605094084159226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4244605094084159226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/04/biblical-insights-of-leadership-part-1.html' title='Biblical Insights of Leadership, part 1'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__gmKlw2rayE/RhEpcvy7L6I/AAAAAAAAAHU/WgHynKEnP8Y/s72-c/FRMBL018.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-7393685025725897235</id><published>2007-02-22T11:27:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T11:27:05.070-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Vision is Not From the Leader</title><summary type='text'>I like Thom Rainer's insights into vision in the church. Rainer writes that one thing breakout churches have "in common [is] a vision that 'discovered' them rather than a painful search to find out God's specific plan. Vision is a commodity in the popular press of leadership, both secular and religious. Many definitions and perspectives on leadership are built in the implicit assumption that the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/7393685025725897235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=7393685025725897235&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7393685025725897235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/7393685025725897235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/02/vision-is-not-from-leader.html' title='Vision is Not From the Leader'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-4236865985155845035</id><published>2007-02-20T16:14:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:31:16.988-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Church Boards: Unified vs. Unanimous</title><summary type='text'>When it comes to church board decision making, a policy requiring a unanimous vote may not be the most desirable strategy. Two issues acting in tension provide an important backdrop for this assertion: 1) the biblical call to unity in the body, and 2) individual differences in perspective, opinion, understanding, and personalities in group dynamics. At first glance, such a rule may seem wise, but</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/4236865985155845035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=4236865985155845035&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4236865985155845035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4236865985155845035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/02/church-boards-unified-vs-unanimous.html' title='Church Boards: Unified vs. Unanimous'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-4564741221908711584</id><published>2007-02-16T19:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T19:03:32.769-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Forgiveness</title><summary type='text'>Dr. Bekker's post on The Difficult Road of Forgiveness is worth the read.Find it here...Dr. Bekker is my doctoral advisor at Regent SGL.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://innerresourcesforleaders.blogspot.com/2007/02/difficult-road-of-forgiveness.html' title='Forgiveness'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/4564741221908711584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=4564741221908711584&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4564741221908711584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/4564741221908711584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/02/forgiveness.html' title='Forgiveness'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-1317926962230899368</id><published>2007-02-16T18:35:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T14:16:27.561-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Selah: Worth the wait</title><summary type='text'> In ancient Israel, selah was used to indicate places in psalms where the choir paused to sing a refrain (Snaith, 1952). Often, where selah occurs in these Psalms, the stanzas are broken up into three sections. Thus, selah functions as a musical chorus and a benediction. Significant ancient sources relate the word's meaning to that of 'always' or 'everlasting,' much like the way in which we use </summary><link rel='related' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selah' title='Selah: Worth the wait'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/1317926962230899368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=1317926962230899368&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1317926962230899368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/1317926962230899368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/02/selah-worth-wait.html' title='Selah: Worth the wait'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-6061318631900249141</id><published>2007-02-11T16:53:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:31:17.301-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Blessed are the Meek…Leaders</title><summary type='text'> In his piece on meekness in leadership, Mark Rutland defines meekness as "power under control". Decades ago, E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist missionary to India, spoke of meekness in similar fashion, often using the metaphor of a domesticated animal to illustrate controlled power.Meekness, say Rutland, can only be demonstrated in "the context of power." This is what he calls a virtue's "</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/6061318631900249141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=6061318631900249141&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/6061318631900249141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/6061318631900249141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2007/02/blessed-are-meekleaders.html' title='Blessed are the Meek…Leaders'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__gmKlw2rayE/Rc-gkSGjmmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/0SWxn3JH-lA/s72-c/hands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-114180701096457192</id><published>2006-03-08T02:36:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T16:47:58.942-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What It Means to Preach</title><summary type='text'>“One of the great pleasures in life is conversation.”-- Sydney Smith, 19th Century English essayistGod desires to converse with His creation in personal and intimate ways. His revelation through Christ speaks to the degree of how much He wants to engage in our lives and tell us about what He created us to be. At the heart of this process through time stands the Christian preacher. There is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/114180701096457192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=114180701096457192&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/114180701096457192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/114180701096457192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-it-means-to-preach.html' title='What It Means to Preach'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-113416489427989896</id><published>2005-12-09T15:48:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T17:16:57.616-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Easter narrative</title><summary type='text'>The Easter narrativeIt is interesting how the notion of unexpectedness appears through the Passion Week of Jesus’ life. He rode into town on a donkey instead of a warhorse. As a Messiah, he was not what people expected or wanted him to be. He was something altogether different.All four of the gospel accounts talk about Resurrection morning. Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb looking to see his body.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/113416489427989896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=113416489427989896&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/113416489427989896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/113416489427989896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/12/easter-narrative.html' title='The Easter narrative'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-112100403565712998</id><published>2005-07-10T08:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-10T09:01:19.296-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Live 8 should be raising the question of economic freedom not monetary handouts as solution to poverty</title><summary type='text'>Aid in Africa...not money needed but (gasp!) freedom...Paul Jacob calls Live 8 a "dead end". What, he suggests, do the Africans who are really dealing with the problem want? Great question! Why isn't Bono asking them?? Here's his excellent piece on that...</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/pj20050710.shtml' title='Live 8 should be raising the question of economic freedom not monetary handouts as solution to poverty'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/112100403565712998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=112100403565712998&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112100403565712998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112100403565712998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/07/live-8-should-be-raising-question-of.html' title='Live 8 should be raising the question of economic freedom not monetary handouts as solution to poverty'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-112083819338472853</id><published>2005-07-08T10:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-09T10:25:56.720-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Battle of Britian...65 years later</title><summary type='text'>The bombings yesterday in London were horrific. Something, unfortunately, Londoners are all too familiar with from their past dealings with the IRA. As with many in the media, the first thing to come to my mind yesterday as I watched the live news feeds of the events was London in 1940. For almost 4 months, the city and its citizens endured intense bombings and raids from the German Luftwaffe. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/112083819338472853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=112083819338472853&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112083819338472853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112083819338472853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/07/battle-of-britian65-years-later.html' title='The Battle of Britian...65 years later'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-112006139824061271</id><published>2005-06-29T11:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-29T11:14:27.390-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Poverty and Morality</title><summary type='text'>A link between your dollars for helping the poor in Africa and the worsening of the problem? Take a look at this...    London - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday that neighbouring African countries had a responsibility to address the crisis in Zimbabwe, and suggested it could hamper his G8 goal of helping the continent.    Blair said it was harder to argue for a boost in </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,6119,2-11-1662_1729245,00.html' title='Poverty and Morality'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/112006139824061271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=112006139824061271&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112006139824061271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/112006139824061271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/poverty-and-morality.html' title='Poverty and Morality'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111997996700985220</id><published>2005-06-28T12:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T12:44:47.823-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Post-modernism and Moral Relativism</title><summary type='text'>I hear it a lot: post-moderns (pomos, for short) are moral relativists; they don't believe that there is any absolute truth.I don't buy that. It's far too simplistic and naive for one thing. Among younger pomos (15-30), there is a resurgence in spirituality and religious interest. 20 somethings are far more likely than any other age group to be involved in charity work and volunteer participation</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111997996700985220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111997996700985220&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111997996700985220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111997996700985220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/post-modernism-and-moral-relativism.html' title='Post-modernism and Moral Relativism'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111997873655094640</id><published>2005-06-28T12:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T12:12:16.556-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Love and Marriage...and the American view of Sex</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps its self-evident that there is a direct link between a culture's view of sexuality and the kind of marriages that culture produces.  Yet we need studies such as a recent one from the sociological journal Demography to tell us things we ought to already know. Such links may be self-evident but they conviently ignored in our freedom-loving (read hedonist and self-worshipping) culture.The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111997873655094640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111997873655094640&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111997873655094640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111997873655094640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/love-and-marriageand-american-view-of.html' title='Love and Marriage...and the American view of Sex'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111964764773795806</id><published>2005-06-24T16:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T16:16:22.906-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Downtown Canton</title><summary type='text'>Downtown Canton, MS. Photo by Bryan Easley (2003). </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111964764773795806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111964764773795806&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111964764773795806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111964764773795806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/downtown-canton.html' title='Downtown Canton'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111962249568063275</id><published>2005-06-24T08:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T15:34:46.250-05:00</updated><title type='text'>KKK Preacher found guilty</title><summary type='text'>"Edgar Ray Killen has likely seen the last of his freedom after a judge sentenced the 80-year-old former Klansman to 60 years in prison for orchestrating the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964." [story here...]The news of Killian's 60 year sentence for his part in the death of the Freedom Riders 50 years ago prompts some interesting reflections on the part of this northern-born </summary><link rel='related' href='http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050624/D8AU0I400.html' title='KKK Preacher found guilty'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111962249568063275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111962249568063275&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111962249568063275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111962249568063275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/kkk-preacher-found-guilty.html' title='KKK Preacher found guilty'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111953352060944430</id><published>2005-06-23T08:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T15:35:51.293-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tenting</title><summary type='text'> "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us..."My two boys could hardly wait until night fell and we got the tent set up. I had been promising them for a week that we would camp out in the backyard together--just a guy trip, Jacob told his mother. So there we lay...Listening to the sounds, telling stories. Soon they drifted off and slept snugly all night.I like the relational metaphor. In </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111953352060944430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111953352060944430&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111953352060944430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111953352060944430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/tenting.html' title='Tenting'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111945837309204463</id><published>2005-06-22T11:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T15:37:18.906-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Swearing on the Koran</title><summary type='text'>There is controversy brewing in the state courts of North Carolina over the practice of swearing court witnesses in using “the Holy Scriptures.” A group of outspoken Muslims are demanding that the Koran be permitted to be used in this procedure. Callers to a local radio show here where I am writing voiced a range of opinions on the matter. Perhaps its not surprising that many felt that one should</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111945837309204463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111945837309204463&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111945837309204463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111945837309204463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/swearing-on-koran.html' title='Swearing on the Koran'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111938784377225048</id><published>2005-06-21T16:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-22T14:32:09.706-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Serenity</title><summary type='text'>Serenity. Makes me want to close my eyes and smell the salt air. I always like looking at this shot. Taken in Gulf Shores, AL, last June. Maybe something is meant by the chair being empty. Maybe not. It evokes something, perhaps a sense of viewing the world from a perspective where the horizons are very broad and distant. Things seem bigger and larger when sitting in this chair. One senses the  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/feeds/111938784377225048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5673250&amp;postID=111938784377225048&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111938784377225048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111938784377225048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/serenity.html' title='Serenity'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673250.post-111936754202050082</id><published>2005-06-21T10:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-22T14:32:56.300-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Genesis</title><summary type='text'>Started this as a new blog today. The first entry was from Sarah's birth (she's 2 now...). No particular reason why I changed the name to "While Drinking Coffee" other than an attempt to capture something that seems to accompany a good cup of hot coffee in the right setting. I've had a steaming cup of Jamaican Blue while watching the misty sunrise in the Jamaican Highlands, sat on the beach in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111936754202050082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5673250/posts/default/111936754202050082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://secondgenerationleadership.blogspot.com/2005/06/genesis.html' title='Genesis'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
