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Leadership development in a faith-based non-profit organisation using a relational leadership model: A case study
Full text linkThis paper describes a case study of a Leadership Development Program (LDP) which has been developed and conducted at a large faith-based non-profit organization providing aged and community care in Australia. Walter Wright's Relational Leadership model which used insights from Jude, Philemon and Colossians was adopted by the organization. Started as a pilot in 2003 the LDP was implemented in 2007 and has been run regularly since then. The LDP was systematically evaluated by an independent researcher recently. The evaluation concluded that the program has been effective and recommended that it continue with some minor modifications. The organization in which this program was developed is a partner in an Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage grant started in 2010 between three universities and two faith-based non-profit organizations providing aged care and community care. This paper has been written by four researchers involved in the linkage grant. Four interviews on participants in the LDP were conducted by the authors to evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership program in order to prepare this paper. The study was carried out to clarify the research aim for the principal author (who is a PhD student in the ARC grant) by trying to understand what the LDP program was aiming to achieve and to be presented at the Spirituality at Work conference at the University of Arkansas
Faith Reyher Jackson papers
No full textAuthor, educator, dancer/choreographer and master gardener Faith Reyher Jackson was born in New York City in 1919 to author Ferdinand Reyher (1890-1967) and author and women's rights activist Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1898-1985). Jackson attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, where she studied under Martha Hill and Martha Graham, graduating with a degree in dance and the arts in 1939. Jackson pioneered a program in dance education at the Academy of the Washington Ballet, where she served as the headmistress from 1964 until her retirement in 1978. Upon her retirement, Jackson devoted considerable time to her gardening efforts, earning her the title of master gardener. Jackson's journalistic career includes positions as the beauty editor of the New York Post from 1945 to 1946 and book editor of the Miami Herald from 1948 to 1950, and she has written for a number of publications, including Dance Magazine, Home & Garden, Mid-Atlantic Country, and American Horticulturist. Her major publications include both fiction and nonfiction, beginning with a scholarly biography of landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, Pioneer of Tropical Landscape Architecture: William Lyman Phillips in Florida, published in 1997 by the University Press of Florida. Jackson's fiction includes Meadow fugue and Descant (2002), for which she was awarded the Washington Writers Award, and her most recent publication, Stone's Throw (2009). Faith Jackson died on November 12, 2012. The collection documents Jackson's literary and journalistic activities, as well as major gardening projects. Material includes correspondence, manuscripts, architectural drawings, photographs, publications, and clippings
Oral history interview with Faith Phillips
No full textFaith Phillips, author of fiction and nonfiction, recalls her childhood and comments on the culture of Adair County, Oklahoma. She talks about her early career as a lawyer and about what prompted her to change her focus to writing. Phillips covers her travels, including a mission trip to Africa and how that changed her perspective on life. She discusses her writing process and a couple of her books, Now I Lay Me Down and Ezekiel's Wheels. She also comments on her emotional struggles with writing a true crime story.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
Faith-based programs
No full textFaith-based programs are one of the oldest forms of correctional treatment in prisons around the world. In the United States (US), faith-based programming was the original and primary form of treatment. The use of faith-based programming in the US was reduced greatly with the rise of the medical model of inmate rehabilitation in the mid-twentieth century. Recently, however, faith-based programming has experienced revitalization with the Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform and development of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2002 (since renamed to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships). Consequently, faith-based organizations are now allowed to compete for federal grants once reserved exclusively for non-religious organizations. As such, the increased presence and use of faith-based programming in correctional contexts has simultaneously continued a strong tradition and has renewed a long-standing debate in corrections.Encyclopedia EntryPre-prin
Faith in the Year Of Faith
Full text linkJ. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI as a pope and author of the idea promulgating the Year of Faith is presented in the paper with his concept of faith. The striking element of Ratzinger’s theology is a personal approach to faith. Faith as an encounter triggering conversion is a fully positive and existencial experience of God, who engages the whole person and personality (unitotality of faith), the reason and love. This attitude of faith builds human praxis and shapes interpersonal relations. Here comes the phenomenon of the Church, which the Pope treats as a source and place of faith, especially with reference to liturgy, owing to which the true relation with the Trune God is established and developed.J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI as a pope and author of the idea promulgating the Year of Faith is presented in the paper with his concept of faith. The striking element of Ratzinger’s theology is a personal approach to faith. Faith as an encounter triggering conversion is a fully positive and existencial experience of God, who engages the whole person and personality (unitotality of faith), the reason and love. This attitude of faith builds human praxis and shapes interpersonal relations. Here comes the phenomenon of the Church, which the Pope treats as a source and place of faith, especially with reference to liturgy, owing to which the true relation with the Trune God is established and developed
2015|16 MLK Lecture: Faith Ringgold: More than 60 Years
No full text2015|16 MLK Series Keynote, artist, activist, author and teacher Faith Ringgold shares inspiring, humorous and very human stories illustrating her life’s work. Through political imagery and first-hand accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, she contextualizes her immense body of work and reflects on how artists and designers use creativity and making to advance the values of democracy, equity and access for all
A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
No full textThis thesis is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed byWilliam James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasizethe subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly littlecomparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two ways.Firstly, I make a brief assessment of what James knew of Kierkegaard’s work.Secondly, I draw four comparisons between Kierkegaard and James. In Chapter One Iexamine the claim that Kierkegaard proposes a pragmatist account of faith of the kindthat James sets out in his essay The Will To Believe. I argue that this claim rests on amisunderstanding of Kierkegaard’s argument that to have faith is to take a risk. In thefollowing chapter I discuss James’s and Kierkegaard’s views on formal proofs for theexistence of God. Both philosophers reject the notion that faith can be based on suchproofs. I distinguish between their positions, and argue in favour of Kierkegaard’s. Inthe third chapter I compare Kierkegaard’s and James’s accounts of religious experience.James views religious experiences as a special kind of evidence for the existence ofGod. For Kierkegaard it is a mistake to view religious experiences as evidence. Suchexperiences should be understood in relation to the concept of religious authority. In thefinal chapter I examine Kierkegaard’s conception of faith as a life-view. I argue that forKierkegaard a life-view is a fundamental perspective on one’s existence. I compare thisconception with James’s concept of philosophical temperament and in relation to hisdiscussion of the sick soul
Minor Threat, Faith, Void, Iron Cross concert flier, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1982
No full textFlier promoting a concert with the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk bands Minor Threat, Iron Cross, The Faith, Artificial Peace, Double O, and Void. The concert occurred at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 1982. The flier was designed by Leslie Clague, later the co-author of "Banned in DC," the first history of the D.C. punk scene, published in 1988
Eastern Australian indigenous language centres - Collective action for community needs
No full textThe “Group”* is a confederation of Aboriginal language advocates from across Eastern Australia. They have elected to act as a 2-way conduit between government – both state and commonwealth and the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and individuals who are currently working on the reclamation and maintenance of their languages. Currently the group is working in collaboration with national archival and acquisition institutions, national media organisations, labour organisations, state and commonwealth education and curriculum development agencies. In respect to its task of collaborating and representing the interests and needs of language centres, the group has facilitated state and national workshops with Aboriginal language centres. These have generated considerable discussion and agreement on a wide range of common concerns that focus on matters such as staffing, funding, training, relationships development and maintenance with government and community stakeholders and the promotion of Indigenous languages within an overwhelmingly monolingual environment.
This presentation will focus on a range of these concerns and outline the proactive role that the group has taken to address these issues with government, their agents, and communities themselves.
Author 1.
The ‘author’ a Gubbi Gubbi man from southeast Queensland, until recently was the Inspector, Aboriginal Education in the New South Wales Board of Studies. He has had extensive experience in schools, vocational education and universities before taking up his position at the Board in 2001. He was held positions in national, state and regional Indigenous organisations over many years. Over the last decade his work has focused on developing curriculum to teach both Aboriginal Studies and Aboriginal Languages. He has also worked with Aboriginal communities, schools and education systems across NSW to facilitate the development of quality educational projects that support effective school and community learning partnerships. He is currently a post-graduate doctoral student at Newcastle University.
Author 2.
The ‘Author’ is from the Yugambeh community south of Brisbane, in Queensland Australia. She has been involved for over twenty years with Indigenous language projects both at the community level and in consultation for state and national policy in support of languages. The ‘Author’ has for the past four years been the coordinator for two major language organisations providing representation for language centres over half of Australia. Through this work she played a key role in liaising with the Federal Government for the announcement of the 2009 National Indigenous Languages Policy.
She has had extensive experience in writing, editing and publishing, and is an author and publisher of a range of books designed to help teach languages to young children.
* The term “Group” is used in this document to replace the title of the organisation
Faith in Elie Wiesel’s Night
Full text linkThe aim of this essay is to examine whether the traumatic experiences that Elie Wiesel depicts in his novel, Night, led the author or any other character he encounters to lose their faith. Considering that the author describes himself and other characters in the novel as believers, one wonders how it would be possible not to lose faith after experiencing the terror of the concentration camps. The reader understands that a crisis of faith occurs and loss of faith might ensue. The focus of the study is on the religious faith and how faith permeates the world depicted in Night, the characters and the imagery that we encounter in the book
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