Jonathan Stegall: Creative Tension

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Follow Me to Freedom

I recently read Follow Me to Freedom: Leading As an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne and John Perkins, and as I expected it was a wonderful read. Shane’s has been an invaluable voice for me the last few years, and John Perkins is a fascinating person as well. This particular one is important, both because it brings together two very different voices in dialog with each other, and because of the subject of radical leadership in the kind of ministry and activism that these two do.

Among these kind of communities, as well as in the broader emerging/missional church, leadership is often a tricky issue. It is hard to lead people who have been burnt by bad leadership, and are often skeptical that there is such a thing as good leadership. But that’s what this book is about: good leadership. This is leadership that is willing to lead and follow folks into something bigger than an individual, through crisis and pain, rejecting the power of violence and oppression in favor of the power of the Cross, toward freedom and real community; patiently waiting for the dreams of God.

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About the Designer

Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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