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Review of Just Leadership

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  Moving forward to a brighter future means moving forward to a more just future. That is why I am including this review on this blog Review of Just Leadership : Putting Integrity and Justice at the Heart of How you Lead by Simon Barrington and Justin Humphreys, SPCK In reviewing this book I need to first locate myself so the reader can understand the lenses through which I was viewing it. I am a cis, queer, white, monogamous, woman who would describe themselves as a progressive Christian and is married to a white, disabled, trans man who is bi, monogamous and a Methodist Minister. A quarter of a century ago I was a member of the same evangelical church as one of the authors. This is relevant because this book is accompanied by a series on TBNUK and is coming from a clearly evangelical perspective. Thus when near the beginning it talks of the book attempting to give a leadership framework which is “Bible-centred, Jesus-centred and justice-centred" one understands that the term ...
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Lesson 1: Enjoying the Music

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  I'm going to hit 50 next birthday, and one of the key things I've learnt is what type of music I enjoy and what I don't. Some of the times I've learnt the hard way, like when I thought I'd go to a candle light performance of Handle's Messiah with my husband because I could learn to like choral and classical. Net result of that one hubby slightly annoyed that I fell asleep and relief I didn't snore. Having learnt what genres I bounce, rather than sleep, through there is a danger I could slip into just listening to stuff I know and had loved since the year dot. And to be fair apart from the odd exception, like Grace Petrie , Calva Louise and the Dream Nails that's what I've spent the last 10 years doing. However this year things have changed. Since the lifting of lockdown I've gotten into the habit of going to gigs that Banquet Records are putting on in Kingston. Most of them are somewhere around £11 for a ticket or £15-£17 with a CD. Now tech...
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