
Cities, by their very nature, point us to the contradictions and paradoxes that are an inseparable aspect of our world. To love cities – as the Leadership Foundations global network seeks to embody – is to embrace these contradictions.
Join us in this episode where we explore the contradiction and tension between two sources of authority – the Street and the Academy – and how both have something to teach us about our urban world.
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,
How can people of faith and good will work together to innovate in our cities by drawing from our rich faith traditions? What might
The Nairobi Leadership Foundation is transforming one of the world’s largest informal settlements, Kibra, through the power of relationships. In this podcast episode of the Traditioned Innovation series, Executive
Is prayer still relevant today, in our post-modern 21st century urban world? Does our 2,000+ year-old faith tradition have anything to teach us about
What if instead of seeking safe spaces, we worked to create brave spaces, spaces where we could bring our deepest selves, our deepest vulnerabilities to
How does reform really happen? We continue our conversation from last episode with Dr. Richard Beck, exploring the prison ministry and reform work of three Local Leadership
Dr. Richard Beck – Author, blogger, and professor of psychology at Abilene Christian University – joins the City as Playground podcast to discuss the psychology of why
Is leadership about making important decisions? Or is it more about the way of going about making decisions? To borrow a phrase from the
With the beginning of the new year, 2021 brings plenty of uncertainty along with it. How do we approach this new and uncertain future? How do we seek long-term change in our world’s cities, when we don’t even know what will happen tomorrow?
Could it be that the deepest resources of our traditions hold the key to some of most promising current-day innovations?
In this series, Traditioned Innovation, Leadership Foundations explores how we bring to light and make use of the wisdom of our traditions in our new and innovative ways to meet the most urgent challenges of our modern urban world.
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.