“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” Those were the words of the late…
My first post in this series is here. Having considered the lessons on truthfulness we can learn from Donald Trump we now turn to another, perhaps more dangerous and consequential problem – the fact that Trump is not only a liar but a narcissist. Everything is about him, and that, and that alone, makes him…
I have been spending a lot of time in recent weeks considering the whole subject of leadership. There is, as I will spell out in a future post, a crisis of leadership in the Church, at least here in the UK, and I suspect further afield. But, with those thoughts filtering in my mind I…
(photo: Marek Studzinski, Unsplash) (Well not me, personally, but Mike Judge, Editor of Evangelical Times who has just posted this excellent piece on their website.) It’s bonfire night here in the UK, and this article may just blow up in my face. So let me say, right off the bat, that I’m flying solo on…