We can talk to almost anyone in the world, but have trouble growing relational significance in our lives. This is precisely the challenge of meaning and purpose that should draw both municipal leaders and faith based organizations to collaborate more effectively.
Faith-based organizations nurture people’s most deeply held beliefs, sanctify their lives’ most vital relationships, and comfort their deepest pains and most profound sorrows. Do we have room for this in our cities’ plans?
Rather than treat all organizations, employees, clients, and students as if they shared the same vision of sin and good, harm and flourishing, the government should acknowledge and accept the differences.
Our communities are populated by such a diverse and flourishing set of nonprofit organizations and businesses only because our government allow these organizations the freedom to exist.
What happens when your city plan neglects to take into account the creativity, desires, and varied needs of the actual people who live there?
I care about justice; must I be an activist?
If it’s up to this generation to save the world, what will happen to our faith lives if there’s still saving to be done when we’re finished with it?
A community in which diverse organizations share a common agenda, continually communicate, share data, and employ shared measurement systems is extraordinarily rare. In fact, I’ve never seen Believe2Become accomplished elsewhere.
The young are “plagued with endless possibilities,” and seeking mentors for learning. Where, though, do institutional leaders look for mentoring?
Could revival possibly come through the prison system?
In Praise of Lev Gillet (1893–1980).
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