Episode 116: Power, Vulnerability, Rest, with Tod Bolsinger, Executive Director of the Church Leadership Institute
Call Me “Mr. Arrogant”
You can just call me Mr. Arrogant. Or Captain Cocky. Ooh, or how about Pastor Proud! Yep, there’s a lot of arrogance in me. “But, wait, Markus. Didn’t you tell us in your last blog post that you struggled with feeling like you weren’t enough?” I did. And here’s the crazy part. Arrogance is really…
The End of “Us” vs. “Them”
“Us” vs. “Them.” It’s how most people see the world. Another word for this is tribalism. And, apparently, tribalism comes quite naturally to us. Here’s what a study titled Tribalism Is Human Nature says: Humans evolved in the context of intense intergroup competition, and groups comprised of loyal members more often succeeded than those that…
