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**Perspective**
1. What are the most important issues I face as a leader?
2. What are the most important issues we face as an organization?
3. What do I think should be done?
4. How well do my colleagues understand my point of view?
5. When I've been misunderstood, how have I contributed to the misunderstanding?
Compasses and Weathervanes
edbatista
As the pancreas in that child develops, it apparently responds to this higher dose of glucose by developing more insulin-secreting cells. So, the higher the blood sugar in the pregnant mother, the more insulin-secreting cells her child will develop, and the more insulin the child will secrete as it gets close to birth. The baby will now be born with more fat, and it will have a tendency to oversecrete insulin and become insulin-resistant itself as it gets older.
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
But here’s the weird thing. A lot of Christians are embarrassed by sin. We don’t want to talk about it. Especially when it comes to sex. You see this embarrassment a lot among Christians who are post-evangelical or post-fundamentalist, Christians who were raised in puritanical churches where sin, holiness, purity, piety, and personal morality were talked about all the time in ways that created loads of guilt, fear, and shame. I understand. Growing up in a conservative church I knew that being a “good person” meant avoiding drugs and sex. And coming out of pietistic churches like this we want to avoid talking about sin because talking about sin makes you sound like a judgmental and holier-than-thou Christian who’s obsessed with sex. The other hesitancy to talk about personal morality has to do with how we need to address systemic evils—social injustice and oppression. By focusing so much on this struggle we can come to wholly ignore the personal and moral aspects of the Christian walk. We talk a lot about justice, but we have almost nothing to say about holiness.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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