Topic: Leadership

Moses dies in sight of the promised land, leaving no grave to venerate. What legacy matters when leaders step aside: a shrine, or a community that loves?

Thirsty, frightened, and ready to blame their leader: God’s answer is not just water from the rock, but elders to walk alongside the people, and alongside us.

To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.

Jesus’s agenda, which we are called to follow, is about healing, liberating and gathering in the excluded, not purifying the community by excluding anyone.

Serving Christ as king challenges our use of power and politics and questions where our ultimate loyalty and security lie.

Despite our almost idolatrous attachment to social structures like traditional family and monarchy, God wants us to live up to our calling to be a radically egalitarian community of prayerful shared responsibility.

Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.

Jesus comes to break us free from oppressive understandings of God and of God’s expectations of us.

Our unwitting abusive treatment of the Royal family is a symptom of our entanglement in systemic persecution.

In baptism we are anointed to reign with Christ over a new creation, but it is a reign of suffering servanthood, not of reckless force.

If you’re looking for wisdom, healing, practical solutions, look to Jesus, because church leaders constantly fail when they do any more than point to Jesus.

In a world dominated by arrogant and exploitative leaders, Jesus models a gentle shepherding leadership that prioritises the reintegration of the broken over the drive for “success” and “efficiency”.