Understanding your world with accessible insights from global Christian leaders making sense of theirs

Welcome to the What Lies Beneath substack. I am the creator and lead mentor of the Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives (D.LGP), launched in 2009.

This site distils the best resources, learnings and materials from the D.LGP course and my amazing students so you can learn with us.

I hope this will help you better understand and map life's global forces to navigate life, work, ministry, and leadership.

Thinking Out Loud

One of the things I invite my students to do is think out loud. And to do so at a time when doing so is so very hard and unsafe to do.

Not just because our world is more complicated but because of the febrile nature of our online world that resists the process of thinking well. Too many people are ready to shout at anyone for any thought that seems politically incorrect and hold people hostage with virtue signalling.

Many Christians have hidden away from thinking out loud, seeing it as unseemly and unsightly, able to point to Christians who perpetuate the worst of public discourse. But to understand, we need to think better and out loud.

I hope that it will be possible here.

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looking under the surface of the global cultural forces that are shaping us