There is an aspect of inquiry that hovers about our practical activities, which may or may not be brought to full awareness and issue in careful reflection. Following Aristotle, Talbot Brewer (The Retrieval of Ethics) connects an this aspect of inquiry to our experience of pleasure, the kind we get when we become absorbed in [...]
18May10
Shop Class as Soulcraft
12May10
Work, Play, and Worship
Most middle-class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted. Their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them in repair, and their life-styles resemble a cast of characters in search of a plot. (Gordon Dahl)
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14Apr10
Secrecy and Small Things
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
The best way to discern whether or not we are making progress is to ask ourselves, “How do I live when no one’s looking?” It’s easy to look like a person of integrity when people [...]
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5Apr10
The Process of Integration
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
It’s self-evident that a hypocrite is unqualified to guide others toward attaining higher character. No one respects a person who talks a good game but fails to play by the rules. What a leader does will [...]
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- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
Integrity – the direct opposite quality of hypocrisy – is the quality that people want most in a leader. Clearly, the Pharisees and teachers of the law in Jesus’ day failed to live up to that standard. [...]
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1Apr10
The Trap of the Pharisees
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
If we fail to face up to our inadequacy, we fall into the trap of the Pharisees: hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the opposite of integrity, and this is precisely what Jesus accuses the Pharisees and teachers of the law [...]
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- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
In John 18, a cohort of 600 armed soldiers comes to arrest Jesus and have their own traumatic encounter with holiness:
Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you [...]
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23Mar10
The Sacred/Secular Myth
This powerful poem teaches that there can be splendor in ordinary, and that all things, even the most mundane, that are done to honor God are modes of worship.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
THE ELIXIR
TEACH me, my God and King,
In all things Thee to see,
And what I do in anything,
To do it as for Thee.
Not rudely, as a [...]
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18Mar10
Two Weekly Videos
My Wednesday Morning Men’s Fellowship teaching is available each week on the KenBoa.org website. They are also archived back to 2006, and these can be viewed at http://www.kenboa.org/audio_and_video/weekly_video
My Sunday Morning Class is also available each week on the KenBoa.org website. They are archived back to 2008, and these can be viewed at http://www.kenboa.org/audio_and_video/sunday_school
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14Mar10
The Power of Integrity
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity -
After surveying thousands of people around the world and performing more than 400 written case studies, James Kouzes and Barry Posner identified those characteristics most desired in a leader. In virtually every survey, honesty or integrity was identified more frequently than any [...]
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