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Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door.
Christians are called to conduct leadership in government,
commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries
and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts, and our
responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do
the King's work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores
key facets of leadership from a Christian worldview so as to equip
people to conduct leadership more authentically than would be
possible under alternative paradigms. The book begins with the
seldom considered theological foundations of leadership while also
tracing the historic roots of management, organization and
leadership theories. All of this leads to a robust discussion of
five essential challenges and practices--communication,
negotiation, decision-making, financial stewardship and personal
development. The combined efforts of these experts in the field
provide a practical theology of leadership from a Christian
worldview for emerging and established leaders. Here is the
foundation needed for those who want to conduct leadership in a
manner consistent with their faith in both religious and
nonreligious organizational contexts.
First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend
towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a
conclusion barely scratches the surface of what constitutes
political tradition in the Mount Rushmore State. Editors Jon K.
Lauck, John E. Miller, and Donald C. Simmons, Jr., have drawn
together twelve essays on disparate topics in order to consider the
state's underlying political culture. Each essay addresses an
aspect of history, politics, or art, subtly exposing the
contradictory nature of South Dakotans and elucidating the many
elements that comprise the larger political tradition. Scholars
from around the country consider topics such as war and peace,
literature, environmentalism, the American Indian Movement,
left-wing and liberal politics, immigration, and defeat. With each
essay, the discussion builds upon itself, allowing the reader to
develop a fuller sense of where South Dakota fits into the growing
study of political culture in modern society.
During the American Civil War and the years immediately following,
thousands of Confederate sympathizers and former soldiers left the
southern United States to seek exile in other lands. Evidence
suggests that more Confederate soldiers went to British Honduras,
presently known as Belize, than any other single site. This work is
an in-depth look at the settlements established by former
Confederates--what lured the Confederates there, what the trip from
New Orleans was like, what life was like for immigrants in Belize
City, the settlements at Toledo, New Richmond, northern British
Honduras, Manattee, and other settlements, and what Belize City was
like at the height of the immigrant influx. Also included are lists
of arrivals at the hotels and passenger lists from the ships; both
were important in identifying prominent Confederates who sought
refuge in British Honduras.
South Dakota is often thought of as a conservative or "red" state,
but its political culture is much more variegated and unpredictable
than such colour-coded references might imply. Just as the nation
as a whole consists of diverse regions and subcultures that
manifest fairly wide swings of opinion and voting patterns over
time, South Dakota contains its own geographic variations and
political subcultures. The first volume illustrated the complex
nature of state politics and cyclical change over time, and this
new group of essays concentrates on some of the unpredictability
and contradictoriness of the state and its citizens. Editors Jon K.
Lauck, John E. Miller, and Donald C. Simmons, Jr., have brought
together ten essays on a diverse number of topics to consider the
state's underlying political culture. Contributors deliberate over
such topics as the influence of political organisations,
conservatism, patriotism, leadership, local and national political
culture, people's movements, and cowboy politics in an effort to
develop a fuller sense of where South Dakota fits into the growing
study of modern political culture.
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