Claudine Gay, the embattled president of Harvard University, resigned January 2. But as a tenured professor, she will continue teaching at Harvard. (In academia, administrative positions are often separated from teaching positions. To resign from one does not preclude retaining the other–even if the reason for the resignation was moral failure). What led to her resignation is worth a brief recap. And what we can learn from it is worth our attention. Accusations of plagiarism…
The 2022 American Worldview Inventory of Arizona Christian University revealed some unsettling facts. We’ve already explored what the study reported regarding Christian parents. That is, that only 4% of parents who profess to be Christians adhere to a biblical worldview. That’s bad. But it gets worse. Turns out that the confusion of our parents mirrors a crisis in the pulpit. ACU surveyed pastors in a variety of roles, from Senior Pastors to Youth and Children’s…
Global crises abound. Russia is invading Ukraine, China is pressuring Taiwan, Canada is restricting freedoms in favor of government coercion, and America—well, you get the idea. The increase in global calamities is predictable and biblical (Matt 24), but so is the need for leaders who are capable of handling the turbulence that consumes us. For that reason, it is a good idea to always remember that God created people, so wise leadership reflects and applies…
Should we critique VP Kamala Harris’ leadership the way we would critique other leaders? Jen Psaki doesn’t think so. In a podcast on November 17, Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, defended her recently tweeted position that Harris is a great leader by claiming that Harris’ critics are largely racists and misogynists. “I do think that it has been easier and harsher from some in the right wing who have gone after her because she…
In the brisk autumn of 1992, a couple of months before his inauguration, Bill Clinton’s motorcade pulled up to the Century City skyscraper in Los Angeles where Ronald Reagan had his post-presidential office. Clinton was spending a few days in town with friends and had sent word to Reagan, now eighty-one years old, that he wanted to stop by and chat. A meeting was quickly arranged. The two men were thirty-four years apart in age…
Lori Loughlin started her career as a child actor but became famous playing moms. And not the kind that bribe college administrators. The other kind. Down to earth, honest, hardworking moms who teach life lessons to plucky teenage girls. She is probably best known for her role as Aunt Becky on the ABC sitcom Full House. Becky was a successful career woman who met and married Jesse Katsopolis, the brother of Danny Tanner’s deceased wife.…
Leaders make choices, and one of the most significant is how they will lead. Some lead by position, power, or pride. Others by principle. In a 2018 interview with Business Because, Sarah Mangia, the senior director of the Leadership Initiative at The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business, explained that “We define principled leadership as the alignment of a leader’s behavior, or perceived behavior, with his or her values.” Yet, human nature…
First Bill Hybels. Then Frank Page. While it is not uncommon these days for new names to be added to the roll-call of leaders who are either accused of moral misconduct or have admitted to it, this week the evangelical Christian community was rattled when two respected leaders were swept into the company of the accused. March 22 Christianity Today published the story that Bill Hybels, founding pastor of the innovative megachurch Willow Creek Community…
I agree. Racism is evil. It is a sin. Period. Whether it happens in Charlottesville or Ferguson or Charlotte or at home. But from the week’s events, plenty of people are declaring that case, so I want to move on to something else, something that we could easily miss in the fray. A lesson leaders can learn in all this. President Trump was blistered for taking too long to declare that what happened in Charlottesville…