Destructive or constructive?
In life it’s much easier to be destructive, than constructive. Are your conversations destructive or constructive? PICTURE: Etienne Boulanger/Unsplash Everyone’s a critic. We delight in pulling something apart. In fact, it makes us feel bigger and superior than the thing we dismiss. But few movie critics go on to be make critically acclaimed movies. It’s […]
Mixed signals for North Korean leader’s sister as Kim seeks to cement power
Seoul, South KoreaReuters The name of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister was missing from a new list of the ruling Workers’ Party’s powerful politburo, according to state media KCNA on Monday, sending mixed signals about her status after years of increasing clout. The party held elections on Sunday for its Central Committee during its […]
Essay: America elected a female vice president. Now will it put women in the pulpit?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, RYAN BURGE, assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, looks at the slow pace of change when it comes to the leadership of women in churches…
When women lead: Christian educators tackle a man’s world
JO KADLECEK reports on an Australian initiative to equip women in leadership…
Sight-Seeing: Leadership lessons from Gen Z
REBECCA OAKLEY, a cross-cultural missionary and Fellow of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, looks at what she’s learnt from leading Gen Z – and how those lessons can help in any form of leadership…
UN chief laments lack of global leadership in coronavirus fight
United NationsReuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday lamented a lack of leadership by world powers and a divided international community in the fight against the coronavirus as he raised concern about inadequate support for poor countries. Guterres’ remarks come after US President Donald Trump reignited his war of words with China during an […]
Africa’s first elected female president to train ‘wave’ of women leaders
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Liberia’s trail-blazing former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will launch a plan on Sunday to help other African women reach the top in a continent dominated by male heads of state. Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, became Africa’s first elected female head of state in 2006 and stepped down in […]
Migration of young Nigerians represents a “failure of leadership”, says cardinal
The migration of young Nigerians represents a “failure of leadership”, according to Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja. Speaking to Agenzia Fides earlier this week on the eve of a meeting of bishops on the issue of migration, Cardinal Onaiyekan accused authorities of creating conditions which ensure more and more young people are driven to seek […]
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY: WORSHIPFUL MYSTERY
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his series on I Timothy, explains why his earlier teaching on office-bearing is so important…
PERFECT LEADER?
During my degree, our economics lecturer challenged us to name the best economic system. Follow the leader – but which one? PICTURE: Jehyun Sung/Unsplash. I was surprised when he said, on paper, the communist system was the best! Equality. Fairness. Unselfishness. There was one flaw. Communism only works when its leader is perfect; above self-interest […]