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It’s All About Power: Mako Nagasawa on Racism, Past and Present Apr 16, 2019

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We continue our series on how we get POWER wrong in the church by interviewing Mako Nagasawa about how racism is completely rooted in power (not just prejudice). Mako founded New Humanity Institute, and his experience as a teacher and trainer in Christian restorative justice and healing atonement theology brings a fresh perspective and a deep knowledge […] The post It’s All About Power: Mako Nagasawa on Racism, Past and Present appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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How Power Subverts Our Justice Efforts with Adam Gustine Apr 09, 2019

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How does our conception of power affect the way we perceive and practice justice? We continue our series on power by talking with author and activist Adam Gustine about power, identity, bias, perspective, wokeness, justice, and all kinds of other stuff! Adam leads CovEnterprises, a social enterprise intitative of Love Mercy, Do Justice, for the […] The post How Power Subverts Our Justice Efforts with Adam Gustine appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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How Power Distorts Our Vision of Masculinity with Nate Pyle Apr 02, 2019

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We continue our series on power by talking with author and pastor Nate Pyle about how our inherited misconceptions about power distort our vision of masculinity. Our vision of masculinity is wrapped up in loads of inherited misconceptions about power, and in this episode we talk with about it. Much of what the evangelical church has […] The post How Power Distorts Our Vision of Masculinity with Nate Pyle appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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How Power Corrupts our Ability to Lead Well with Thomas Horrocks Mar 26, 2019

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What is the difference between “worldly power” and the power of God? Matt and Ben talk with Thomas Horrocks from the Sinnergists Podcast about how power corrupts our ability to lead like Jesus when we don’t lead from a place of servanthood. We talk about cults, the military, pacifism, the idolatry of “effectiveness”, and a whole bunch […] The post How Power Corrupts our Leadership with Thomas Horrocks appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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How We Get Power Wrong: Control Vs Love Mar 19, 2019

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Most of us think of power as control. The ability to “make things happen”. Then we project this onto God, thinking he is the most able to “make things happen”. But what if God’s power was more characterized by love than control? Is love powerful? This is Part 2 of our series on power in […] The post How We Get Power Wrong: Control Vs Love appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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Power in the Church, Part 1: We Have a Problem With Power Mar 12, 2019

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Abuse of power in the church has been exposed more in the last few years that ever before, but what does this have to do with us “normal” leaders who haven’t abused power egregiously like the leaders we see in the news? On our 1-year podcast anniversary, we start a new series on power in the […] The post Power in the Church, Pt 1: We Have a Problem With Power appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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Why and How to Practice Lent with Aaron Damiani Mar 05, 2019

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Many of us associate Lent with eating fish on Fridays… but what is Lent? And why would someone want to practice it, especially if it isn’t part of your tradition? In this episode, Ben and Matt chat with Aaron Damiani, who wrote a book on why and how to practice Lent: The Good of Giving Up: […] The post Why and How to Practice Lent with Aaron Damiani appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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Self-care and Self-indulgence? How to Tell the Difference Feb 26, 2019

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What’s the difference between self-care and self-indulgence? How can you tell if you’re practicing healthy rest or unhealthy indulgence? In this episode, Ben, Matt and Ben discuss this issue based on some of their recent personal kairos moments. Is there such a thing as healthy ambition? Do we make our resting into “work?” Ben H. also […] The post 052 – Self-care or Self-indulgence? How to Tell the Difference appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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051 – Practicing Directive Leadership Without Micromanaging Feb 19, 2019

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In this episode Ben, Matt and Ben answer a recent email that questions the balance between managing and micromanaging. Some of the topics we cover are: self-leadership comes before leading others paying attention to our own anxiety in the midst of leading how to invite change in others (parenting tip!) how do we leverage everything […] The post 051 – Practicing Directive Leadership Without Micromanaging appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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050 – Bonnie Kristian on (Faithfully) Practicing a Flexible Faith Feb 12, 2019

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In this episode Ben and Matt talk with Bonnie Kristian about how faith and flexibility go together. We often think of them as opposites, but in fact we need some flexibility for our faith to grow. Topics in this episode: In seasons of disillusionment, how can we let our faith be flexible without losing our faith […] The post 050 – Bonnie Kristian on (Faithfully) Practicing a Flexible Faith appeared first on Gravity Leadership.
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