Essays on formation, leadership,
and human flourishing
Formation is happening whether we name it or not. This archive collects essays, theological writing, and personal reflections on what it means to be formed well, and what it costs when we are not.
Authority, Skepticism, and the Leader Who Endures
Leaders who lead from genuine formation create environments where others can actually flourish.
Read More →True Character Is Not Built in Grand Moments
By the time the defining moment arrives, character is already largely settled.
Read More →What a School Carnival Teaches About Formation
Formation is not preparation for flourishing. Formation is already flourishing in motion, or its absence.
Read More →Pressure Does Not Create Who You Are. It Reveals It.
Pressure reveals how you have been formed, and whether that formation has prepared you to carry weight.
Read More →Most of Us Do Not Think About How We Were Formed
You cannot move toward what you were made for while remaining unconscious of what has been shaping you.
Read More →What It Is Like to Work for a Leader Who Keeps Things Unclear
People in chronically unclear environments do not flourish. They calibrate downward and learn to want less.
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