A batch of the best highlights from what Todd's read, .
Be intentional in developing others by explaining what you’re doing and why. If your leadership style revolves around a strong value you have, name it, and explain why you’re using it.
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
In contrast to the traditional view that uncleanness was contagious, Jesus regarded holiness/wholeness as contagious.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
Another way to think about this, especially faith-as-allegiance, is that, in the Biblical imagination, there is no space for free moral agency. Every space has a Power or a Lord. The only option before you, therefore, is to whom you will swear allegiance.