For Leaders in Education

A Problem to be Solved or a Tension to Manage

Tension…

When I say that word, what comes to mind? Do you feel a desire to run away from it? Or, when you identify it, do you want to lean into it and lead?

I don’t know about you, but my relationship to “tension” has been like a roller coaster. At times, I feel ready and desirous to lean into the tension, and at other times, I am tired of it and just want simple solutions that don’t require the difficult grunt work. You might even say that I exist in tension with tension itself, swaying from one side to the other.

You In a Sentence

Sometimes Scripture gives us an entire life in a sentence. A person appears briefly in the biblical story, and the few words used to describe them become the way they are remembered.

People of the Journey

In the midst of the relatively new and increasingly bloody American Civil War, American journalist Horace Greeley, writing in the New York Tribune, called directly for President Lincoln to more vigorously enforce the recently passed Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862. The Confiscation Acts were designed to allow Northern Union forces to confiscate property from the breakaway Southern Confederate states during the United States Civil War. This may sound to us like an unsavoury but perhaps necessary set of actions to take during wartime, but there is more to the story.