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Review-A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission & Hope

August 11, 2011

I just finished Peter Steinke’s A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission and Hope.  If you’ve read this blog from time to time, his name might sound familiar as I’ve done posts or reviews from his three other books, my favorite of which has been Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times.  When I heard about [...]

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Meta-Cognitive Part Two

July 7, 2011

Following up on my post yesterday I am coming back to another area in which I find great value in pursuing a meta-cognitive approach:  theology. Jeannine Brown in the book I referenced yesterday Scripture as Communication quotes A. Berkeley Michelsen as warning, The  very essence of poetry is destroyed if we are absorbed in the [...]

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Friedman’s Fables (Brief Review)

January 4, 2011

If you’ve read some of the posts here on this blog referencing family or congregational systems theory, perhaps you’ve been intrigued but you haven’t read a lot.  Friedman’s Fables might be a helpful entry point for you.I recently finished the book even though I had read bits and pieces over the last few years.  Obviously, [...]

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Thoughts on The Myth of the Shiksa (Review)

May 19, 2010

If you know me or have read this blog for a while you probably know that I love reading stuff by Edwin Friedman.  I’ve been an advocate of A Failure of Nerve as a must read leadership book for a few years now and have also loved what I’ve read from Generation to Generation and [...]

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Review of an Essay -”The Myth of the Shiksa”

March 27, 2010

I posted a few weeks ago on an essay by Edwin Friedman in The Myth of the Shiksa (link here).  I want to share a couple thoughts on the essay for which the overall collection is named – “The Myth of the Shiksa.”This is the largest essay in the book, but incredibly fascinating in light [...]

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Words, Semantics, and Empathy

February 4, 2010

I wanted to follow up one of my last posts to provide some explanation for something that on the face would have been hard to understand and appreciate.  And if you stop by this blog from time to time, I’ll reference Friedman and his thoughts and this is a good distinction to make if you’re [...]

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Screwtape for Systems

February 1, 2010

I am halfway through reading Edwin Friedman’s The Myth of the Shiksa, which was published posthumously a couple of years ago as a collection of essays and lectures from Friedman.The first essay is a classic entitled, “An Interview with the First Family Counselor.”  What makes this a unique work is that Friedman identifies the First [...]

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Past and the Present

October 28, 2008

“Just because a page is torn off the calendar does not mean that unit of time has ceased to exist.” -Edwin Friedman, A Failure of Nerve:Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix Here’s another quote from A Failure of Nerve that connects well with something that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately – [...]

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