CRM: Empowering Leaders
Continuous and Generous Revolution
Today I received, like every other morning, the short and sharp wisdom of Fr. Richard Rohr, which you can subscribe to here if you are interested. A paragraph that he wrote really struck me: All-or-nothing reformations and all-or-nothing revolutions are not true reformations or revolutions. Most history, however, has not known this until now. [...]
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25.October.2011
From San Diego with Love
So I arrived back from an amazing trip to San Diego, California last week. Although I was only there for a week it was a experience-crammed week! It was so good to see my friends Rob and Laurie (Founders of NieuCommunities, amazing hosts and all round good people) and the NieuCommunities San Diego people. [...]
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19.September.2011
Four Kinds of Help we all need: Concluding Thoughts (Part 4 of 4)
This is a four part series on mentors. Thus far we have explored role of mentors, different types of mentors and how to cultivate your own network of support as you go about your calling. In this post we conclude with some closing comments and a few tips. In the previous post we completed a mentoring [...]
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5.September.2011
Quote-amongfriends: Stuck in the Mud?
You will be pleased to know that I am going to start blogging again! Its been a while. This week I will start posting a four part series on mentors entitled “Four Kinds of Help we all need”. Otherwise, I hope life is treating you well as we move into the hopeful and energetic season [...]
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12.August.2011
NieuCommunities’ Facilitates Transformation.
Curtis Love facilitated an amazing 3-day coaching training for 18 gifted leaders of local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), NieuCommunities, and Ethne (a sister organization within CRM), a few weeks ago. Yesterday, I received his newest newsletter reflecting upon this intensive time spent together, and I realized, this is what NieuCommunities does best. We facilitate transformation through the [...]
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23.June.2011
Quote-amongfriends: On Equality
Equality is essential to human life and well-being, and people were willing to make enormous sacrifices to achieve it in South Africa and in other nations. But as King and Gandhi remind us, God’s dream envisions more than mere equality. An equal you can acknowledge once and then forever thereafter ignore. God’s dream wants us to be [...]
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16.June.2011
Eckhart’s Spirituality of Detachment
I know this is not everyone’s cup of tea and I have often hesitated to share my academic writing for this reason. However after thinking about how much time one spends on writing a paper, I figured I might as well just post some of it on my blog. I have tried to pick the [...]
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11.May.2011
Brief Thoughts on the Upcoming Elections (and our politics in general)
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about politics in South Africa. I want to refrain from a lengthy discussion, there are many others more skilled than I to offer that, so let me offer a few short thoughts: We as South African’s have accepted inflammatory, divisive and downright violent rhetoric as [...]
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2.February.2012
Curtis Love, South Africa