Leadership Today
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Authoritarian leadership stands as one of the most vexing challenges both for society and churches today, resulting in immense human devastation and growing mistrust of religion. Can a faith-informed view of moral psychology provide useful answers?
Dr. Raymond B. Chiu, Assistant Professor from Redeemer University, teaches a six-part series to explain the roots of tyranny and address insights from scripture. Together we explore the empirical evidence and its spiritual implications. |
Time and Place
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Sundays June 4 to July 16 (with break from class on June 25)
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (after the 9:15 AM English service) You're also welcomed to join us for the fellowship and refreshments in the half hour before class begins, and for the 9:15 AM English service. Curbside parking is available on adjoining side streets. Underground parking for the English congregation is available two levels down on level P2. North York (Chinese) Baptist Church, second-floor gym 685 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M2K 1B6 NYCBC is on the south side of Sheppard Avenue East between Bayview Avenue and Leslie Street, steps from the Bessarion subway station. |
The Research
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In research led by Agata Mirowska from NEOMA Business School and co-authored by Rick Hackett from McMaster University, we spent close to a decade tackling the problem of tyrannical leadership using psychological surveys of multiple student and adult samples.
Our findings are published in a leading business journal and featured in a podcast interview by The Roys Report. The study is also highlighted in news outlets such as the Christian Courier, Forbes, The National Post, Psychology Today, and The Conversation. |
Weekly Topics
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rlt4_fear.pdfIn this Sunday School series, we journey through the inter-related components of our model that paint a vivid picture of human existence. We also see how scripture informs us about each aspect of this phenomenon (topics are subject to change).
Week 1: Leadership | Why Everything Old Is New Again How do leaders like Saul, Abimelech, or Barabbas arise? We investigate the troubled patterns of leadership emergence in the world and in scripture to reveal age-old insights about our needs as followers and the meaning of leadership in our lives. Slides: rlt1_leadership.pdf Week 2: Information | When Leadership Is All in Our Heads When we follow a leader, are we following someone who leads well, or someone who gives the impression that they do? We draw on both research and scripture that show how we are betrayed by the limited information and leader stereotypes we possess. Slides: rlt2_information.pdf Week 3: Morality | How Our Deepest Convictions Drive Us Why are the world's greatest ideological and political battles characterized by two simple words: left and right? We discuss how our basic moral intuitions lead to distinctly different visions of society, views of scripture, and, ultimately, choices of leaders. Slides: rlt3_morality.pdf Week 4: Fear | Why a Terrible World Is Reshaping Us The COVID-19 pandemic has irreversibly changed how we approach life--could other anxieties about the world also affect the morals and leaders we endorse? We reflect on the most basic human response to life's frailties and biblical warnings about its power. Slides: rlt4_fear.pdf Monologue: rlt4_fear_monologue.pdf Week 5: Tyranny | When the Strongman Captures Your Heart Given how leaders are idolized and vilified today, what does it say about our spiritual state? We explore how people created in the image of God are integrated, limited, and gendered individuals who seek fulfilment in larger-than-life figures. Slides: rlt5_tryanny.pdf Handout: rlt5_tyranny_handout.pdf Week 6: Redemption | How Our View of Leadership Is Renewed What do we do when leaders are broken people too? Bringing together previous insights, we rediscover basic realities about leadership, followership, organizations, governance, and church when we revisit Jesus Christ as our model leader. Slides: rlt6_redemption.pdf Handout: rlt6_redemption_handout.pdf |
More Information
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For more information, contact Raymond at [email protected] or the Teaching Ministry at [email protected].
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