Gravity Commons Podcast

Why do we seem to be attracted to narcissistic leaders? Even with all the writing lately about how harmful narcissistic leaders are to organizations, we don’t seem to be able to shake their allure. More disturbingly, would we know how to detect narcissism within ourselves? We continue our series on Power in the Church by […] The post Chuck DeGroat on Why We Love Narcissistic Leaders appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our ongoing series on Power in the Church, interviewing Timothy Isaiah Cho about what he’s learning about healing from spiritual abuse. We talk about how to know if you’re experiencing spiritual abuse, five signs of spiritual abuse, and some of the harmful ways spiritual abuse affects our ability to trust God in the long […] The post Healing From Spiritual Abuse with Timothy Isaiah Cho appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What does it actually look like to empower others like Jesus did? How can we practice cruciform leadership? We continue our series on Power in the Church, interviewing Greg Boyd, a theologian, pastor, and author of several books which you can check out here. You can also follow him on Twitter. In this episode, we […] The post Greg Boyd on Practicing Cruciform Leadership appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our series on Power in the Church, interviewing Brian Zahnd on how easy it is to succumb to the power of empire, and how to subvert it instead. The post Brian Zahnd on Subverting the Power of Empire appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What’s the goal of justice? To punish the offender as payment for wrongdoing or to restore the offender to community? We continue our series on power by talking with Dominique DuBois Gilliard about how our anemic vision of justice has created a very broken incarceration system in the United States. Dominique helps us see that even […] The post Rethinking Incarceration with Dominique DuBois Gilliard appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our series on power and in this episode we have a fascinating conversation Keith Giles about his experience in breaking cultural power norms by using a house church model that allows people to “bring what they have” and challenges the normal “person in charge” mentality. Keith Giles is a former pastor who left […] The post How Power Distorts the Body of Christ With Keith Giles appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What is mutual submission? How does it actually work? And how can it be practiced to subvert the worldly power games we keep getting sucked into in the church? We continue our discussion of POWER in the church, and our guest is David Fitch, a pastor at Peace of Christ Church in Westmont, Illinois, and a […] The post David Fitch on How Mutual Submission Subverts Coercive Power appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our series on how we get POWER wrong in the church by interviewing Mako Nagasawa about how racism is completely rooted in power (not just prejudice). Mako founded New Humanity Institute, and his experience as a teacher and trainer in Christian restorative justice and healing atonement theology brings a fresh perspective and a deep knowledge […] The post It’s All About Power: Mako Nagasawa on Racism, Past and Present appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How does our conception of power affect the way we perceive and practice justice? We continue our series on power by talking with author and activist Adam Gustine about power, identity, bias, perspective, wokeness, justice, and all kinds of other stuff! Adam leads CovEnterprises, a social enterprise intitative of Love Mercy, Do Justice, for the […] The post How Power Subverts Our Justice Efforts with Adam Gustine appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our series on power by talking with author and pastor Nate Pyle about how our inherited misconceptions about power distort our vision of masculinity. Our vision of masculinity is wrapped up in loads of inherited misconceptions about power, and in this episode we talk with about it. Much of what the evangelical church has […] The post How Power Distorts Our Vision of Masculinity with Nate Pyle appeared first on Gravity Leadership.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy