Adult Christian Education ~ “Humble Leadership” by N. Graham Standish
“Humble” and “leadership” may seem oxymoronic, but Standish argues that the Christian tradition has twinned the two - that from the desert fathers and mothers through medieval mystics to the Reformers and modern thinkers like Thomas Kelly, some of history’s most passionate and effective spiritual leaders understood and demonstrated the power of humility in relation to their vocations to lead. Standish rightly points out that many transformative leaders held humility as a primary Christian virtue, the core virtue from which justice, compassion, and holiness spring. However, he also points out the most Christians, clergy included, rarely examine the nature, practice, and centrality of humility in their lives, much less in relation to leadership. Humility remains the most misunderstood of all the virtues, and in many ways it is the lost virtue. And that, Standish implies, may well be the problem with religious leadership” (forward by Diana Butler Bass)
This will be a brief, six week study, and will be held on the following Sunday evenings at 6 p.m.:
April 15, April 22, April 29, May 6, June 3 and June 10
(June 17 and 24 are backup dates, in case there is a need to reschedule)
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Plainville, CT 06062
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