Two Secrets of Good Leadership: Learning to Live with Other People’s Pain and with Your Own Mistakes | [D]mergent

Christianity
Written By Derek Penwell

Any minister who wants to make changes to a system that depends on the minister to make changes is going to have to get comfortable watching people suffer.

You can’t be a good leader without risking mistakes and embracing the humiliation of getting it wrong.

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Derek Penwell

Author, Speaker, Pastor, Activist. Derek Penwell is senior pastor of Douglass Boulevard Christian Church, and a lecturer at the University of Louisville in Religious Studies and Comparative Humanities. His newest book, Outlandish, focuses on understanding the political nature of Jesus’ life as a model for forming communities of resistance capable of challenging oppression in the pursuit of peace and justice.

He is an activist and advocate on local, state, and national levels on issues of racial justice, LGBTQ fairness, interfaith engagement, and immigrant and refugee rights.

https://derekpenwell.net
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