When The Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Curious: Sarah Drummond on Good Leaders (and Good People)
Season 3, Episode 309, Oct 22, 2020, 08:49 AM
What In God’s Name talked with Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, last winter, before the pandemic changed our lives. The insights that Sarah offers from her book “Dynamic Discernment: Reason, Emotion, and Power in Change Leadership” are helpful to us all, as we negotiate change in these challenging times.
What is discernment? What are its constituent parts?
What are some pieces of self-reflection that a good leader needs to practice regularly? Aren’t those pieces of self-reflection necessary for all of us, whether we’re in formal leadership positions or not, to be effective people in life-affirming, life-producing relationships?
“When the going gets tough, the tough get curious.” How could this be a rallying cry for renewed citizenship?
Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing movement of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.
In short, we want to foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.
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