Leadership studies

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 22nd November 2022

Navigating Uncharted Journeys through Values

Contemporaneous notes from the fourth speaker session at the MODEM Conference 2022. Jackie Le Fevre speaking about core/sacred values – values that you just can’t go against. Discovered this when submitting a project for a degree, and couldn’t bring herself to break one of her core values (do you need to kill animals to study…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 21st November 2022

Uncharted Journeys

Contemporaneous notes from the 2022 MODEM Conference at Sarum College, first speaker session. Professor Margaret Heffernan is opening the conference talking about her book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future. She was brought up as an Episcopalian in the US, and has attended a village church in the UK since she’s been here. Uncharted came…

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Book Review of Jon Coutts (2019) Church Leadership. SCM Studyguide. London: SCM Press. 184 pp., £19.99.

David Sims There is something refreshing about a book on leadership whose index ranges from Thomas a Kempis to Bart Simpson, but has almost no reference to the massive leadership literature that has developed over the last 50 years. Also alarming. The author is aware of a range of writing from outside the usual Christian…