The witness of Scripture and church history offers profound instances of faithful resilience.
Brendan Case
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Brendan Case is the associate director for research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He earned a doctor of theology degree at Duke Divinity School and is a former writer for Faith & Leadership.
Scholarship, leadership, citizenship
A university in Ghana equips its students to be innovators in their fields through a dual focus on “hard skills” and liberal arts that foster creativity and civic engagement. Does your institution help employees connect their work to the good of society as a whole?
Making music from trash
The Recycled Orchestra in Paraguay turns brokenness into beauty. What castoffs and broken places are awaiting redemption in your life?
Persevering through failure as the key to execution
Rather than avoiding it, how might your institution encourage and embrace moments of failure?
How difficulty nourishes creativity
What are the most burdensome constraints of your work in ministry, and how might you re-imagine them as opportunities for innovation?
Three keys to sustainable design
Fast Company’s design blog offers tips that Christian leaders can use to cultivate to execute good ideas.
Ecosystems of change
What an island of centenarians can teach leaders about cultivating lasting change.
Innovation and the bottom line
Maintaining a creative institutional culture doesn’t mean abandoning the budget. A free resource explores how innovation and business thinking can -- and should -- exist together.
Four keys to overcoming “creative block”
Yes, sleeping and painting a barn can help you -- and those you lead -- unleash the imagination.
The world, as seen by Roger Federer
Brilliant improvisers -- whether on the court or in the workplace -- are trained to see the world differently than the rest of us.
Writing like a swimmer
Olympic swimmers hone their craft through repetition and discipline. So do writing students at a Staten Island high school.
How to think with the early church about disagreement
There is nothing like an election cycle to showcase disagreement at its most rancorous. How should Christians navigate the troubled waters of conflict, whether as parishioners, employees or citizens?
Learning on the job
How to make your organization a learning culture through slow, incremental changes -- the way social entrepreneurs do.
Brendan Case: Should a Christian leader ever lie?
Augustine says no.
Let's Talk About Faithful Generosity
This free tool facilitates conversations for how congregations can use their resources to serve their local community. Created by Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and the innovative design team at Rooted Good, Let’s Talk is designed to be used alongside the Faithful Generosity Story Shelf, which highlights organizations who have used their resources in creative—and sometimes surprising—ways as an expression of faithful giving.
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