
How do we navigate today’s urban world – holding the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other? How do we navigate the tension of contemplation and action, street and the academy in our active engagement in the city?
Join us for this new City as Playground series as we’ll be exploring these tensions by engaging thought leaders and practitioners from across the world and throughout the Leadership Foundations’ global network.
G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its
Can you see a playground amidst the countless smells, sights, and sounds of New York City? Jeremy Del Rio, Executive Director of Thrive Collective,
Can you imagine a city that is just? A city where everyone – regardless of background, birth family, race, or creed – receives what
At the center of transformation in our world’s cities is leadership – women and men who deeply love their city and are committed to it
In this year-end series of 2021, we’re returning to our roots, letting our imagination guide us as we explore more deeply the animating metaphor
Can you imagine God’s economy of abundance even in places where resources appear so scarce? Can you see it?Join us as we wrap up this
The story of West Virginia is one often told only describing its entrenched poverty, widespread opioid use, and coal -dependent economy. Ruston Seaman, president
In Fresno, the Center for Community Transformation Leadership Foundation is reimagining the local economy in light of God’s abundance. An economy where the city
Homelessness, prostitution, government corruption. Amidst some of these dire circumstances in South Africa, only exacerbated by COVID-19, the Towers of Hope Leadership Foundation is living into
Can you imagine our world’s cities as places of abundance? Places where God’s excessive love for God’s children is on full display? Where everyone,
What book, movie, quote, or tv show has most shaped your understanding of leadership or the city?
A quote that has shaped my understanding of leadership and the city is, “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
While the amount of work there is to do to transform cities is great, this quote reminds me that we are freed from having to complete it all, though our obligation to continue remains. We may never see a huge transformation in our lifetime. The work stretches far beyond us. However, this does not make our acts of faithfulness in the day to day less significant, no matter how small they may seem.