VOLUME 5
Habibi – Craig Thompson [Book Trailer]
Another book from a noted Festival of Faith and Writing speaker that slipped past us in the last year… Habibi: […]
Pam Hogeweide – Unladylike [Feature Review]
“The insistence to relegate church roles based on gender, rather than gifting has meant the minimizing of untold numbers of women solely because of their femininity.” So says writer Pam Hogeweide, both from personal experience and from hearing the stories of many other women. Those are the stories she tells in Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church.
Luci Shaw – “April” [Poem]
An appropriate poem from another noted speaker at the Festival of Faith and Writing, Luci Shaw. From her book: The […]
Maurice Manning – THE COMMON MAN: Poems [Excerpt]
An excerpt from the recent book The Common Man: Poems by Maurice Manning Hardback: HMH Books, 2010 Buy now: [ […]
The Creative Society – Louis Galambos [Feature Review]
Looking back, perhaps with an eye to the future, Galambos believes “that America needed leaders who could manage the experts and do so in ways that served our national interests and were still consistent with American democratic values.” (219). While he found that “in business, as in government and the nonprofit sector, it took a combination of good leaders and professional expertise to keep an organization efficient as well as innovative” (238), in the end that is not enough. A society does need good leadership, but Galambos would do well to pay more attention to the issue of the character that a society’s narratives produce. The problem and the challenge is not leaders to manage the experts, but the ethos out of which the leaders and their experts operate. The innovative efficiency of experts needs more than a sprinkling of equity, it needs to be shaped by a story that attends to the top and the bottom as well as the middle–it needs community.
