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Ethics: The Heart of Leadership
Edited by Joanne Ciulla. An important collection of essays by philosophers, leadership and management thinkers considering the role of ethics in leadership

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
By Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears, Stephen R. Covey. Servant and leader--can these two roles be fused in one real person in all levels of status and calling?

Warranted Christian Belief
By Alvin Plantinga. Third in a trilogy of works on the issue of warrant - the basis of the rationality of Christian beliefs written by arguably the most important philosopher of religion alive today

Renovation of the Heart
By Dallas Willard. A philosopher and quintessential Christian teacher relates and reflects on what it means to put on the character of Christ.

Foreign Bodies
By Hwee Hwee Tan. An impressive first novel by young new author from Singapore acclaimed as an up and coming Pulitzer Prize winner

Mammon Inc.
By Hwee-Hwee Tan. Second novel by this very important young new author from Singapore applauded the world over, including The Times in London and the New York Times

Three Philosophies of Life
By Peter Kreeft. Three life philosophies presented through the works of three of Scriptures most beautiful poetry books, Job, Ecclesiastes and Songs of Solomon

Horrendous Evil and the Goodness of God
By Marilyn McCord-Adams. A seminal response to the age-old problem of evil which attempts to take seriously the theological ramifications of the character of God

Blink
By Malcolm Gladwell. Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.

Smart Mobs
By Howard Rheingold. A social commentary about how "sophisticated mobile Internet access is allowing people who don't know each other to act in concert".

Linked
By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. An engaging treatise about the fundamentals of interconnectedness and complexity that underlies neurology, epidemiology, Internet traffic, and many other fields.

The Peaceable Kingdom
By Stanley Hauerwas. A clear explication of a Christian ethic based upon the meaning of the gospel, highlighting virtues and character, and narrative as a mode of ethical reflection.

The Goldsworthy Trilogy: Gospel & Kingdom, Gospel & Wisdom, Gospel & Revelation
By Graeme Goldsworthy. A collection of masterful works expositing on the centrality of the Scriptures: the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Grace and Law: St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew Prophets
By Heinz Cassirer. A Kantian scholar looks at the Old Testament Law, and Paul's understanding of it, concluding that Kant's delimma is answered by the gospel of grace.

The Un-Right Christians

Progressive Christian Blogger Network

Church Directory of Evangelical Blogs

Friday, January 07, 2005

Every now and then, us "BlogExlosioners" ~~are~~ feel obligated to post something about this phenomenon. So here is my long-overdue BlogExplosion post. BlogExplosion for most of us was once a way to earn lots of traffic. Lately, I think the strive for more traffic has been replaced by the search for better blogs to read and share. If you don't know what I am talking about (although the majority of folks coming by here do), you ought to check it out.

Those of you from BlogEplosion, have you noticed that the newsletter is a tad late this month? I wonder what new stuff they have in store for us this month. I made a suggestion to them last month, one that I had made a while back. I thought, the more times they see that suggestion, the more interest I might generate from them. Then I thought, what if I let my fellow BlogExplosioners know about it, and they too send in their chorus? Perhaps we might find the feature added sooner than later! Here is what I suggested: A new feature to allow us to communicate with those who have blogmarked us.

For instance, when I go to my blogmarked list - not those I have blogmarked, but those who have blogmarked me, I see a whole bunch of people. Don't you wish you could just group-send them all a message? Perhaps, it might be that when you blogmark someone's blog, you have several options to allow the blog-owner to send you updates. Then when the owner of the blog posts up something interesting he or she has the option of sending out a broadcast message to those who have indicated they would like to receive updates or messages from those they have blogmarked. Or, perhaps, there is a way that you automatically get an update when that blog is updated. Maybe, there are several different options to allow communication back and forth between those who blogmarked you and those you blogmark. Further, perhaps it might even be a good idea to have a way to share blogmarks. You know? People who have blogmarked me may choose to view my blogmarks (if I allow them to do so). That way, we can create networks of networks. What do you think?