That’s a Wrap: Our Favorite Resources from 2023
One of my more recent end-of-the-year enjoyments is scrolling through social media to see people post their “Spotify Wrapped” lists.
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Metacognition: A Reflective Pathway to Growth and Healing
The key to effective and fruitful reflection doesn’t lie in the content of your thoughts. It’s in your awareness and understanding of your thought processes.
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Rest Recap
Over the summer, we’ve written several articles to help us think about our relationship with rest, sabbath, and play.
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Rest, Sabbath, and Play: A Rule of Life for Marketplace Leaders
In 2020, while the world was reeling from the pandemic, I was embarking on a new journey. For 2 1/2 years I committed to quarterly three-day spiritual retreats within a transforming community.
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Michaela O’Donnell on the Sound of the Genuine Podcast
Michaela O’Donnell joined Patrick B. Reyes of the Forum for Theological Education on his Sound of the Genuine podcast. Michaela spoke with Patrick about the role of context and constraints in helping her integrate her faith into her life, work, and leadership.
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The Benefit (and Risk) of Leading with Care
For the last 18 months, I’ve been enamored by the question: What does it look like to lead in a distinctively Christian way? I’m curious partly because of my work at the De Pree Center. Partly because I believe that faith ought to play out in an embodied way in my own work.
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The Daily Practice: A Tool to Help You Apply the Bible to Your Life, Work, And Leadership
This four-step process, modeled off the practice of Lectio Divina, will help you prayerfully reflect on how the Bible relates to your life, work, and leadership.
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What Did God Birth in You This Year?
In December 2020, Michaela O’Donnell wrote an article called: What is God Birthing in You? in which she wondered about what the unusual year of 2020 was readying us for in 2021. In this article, she helps us consider what birthing might look like in our work and leadership as well as gives us an exercise to reflect on this as we head into a new year.
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The Problem with Leaders
What do 18-35-year-olds from around the world think about leadership? Well, they’re less than hopeful.
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Practices for Growth, Part Two: Lean In and Let Go
This is part two in a series on Practices for Growth, find the first part here. It’s been a year of waiting. Waiting for…
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Practices for Growth, Part One: Let Water off The Boat
When my son was two months old, we had a friend temporarily move in with us. She was in a bad place and needed…
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A Review of Tod Bolsinger’s Leadership for a Time of Pandemic
Five years ago, Tod Bolsinger came out with his best-selling book, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. Leaders throughout the United States…
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What Can We Know About the “Leaders” in Ephesians 4:11?
In the New Testament letter known as Ephesians, we find a short list of what might be called “leadership roles” in the church. The…
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