Want to succeed as a leader? Ask for help, says Joni Eareckson Tada
17 Sep
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Want to succeed as a leader? Ask for help, says Joni Eareckson Tada

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — Good leaders are often told to play to their strengths and hide their weaknesses.That has never really worked for disability activist and nonprofit leader Joni Eareckson Tada. Paralyzed from the neck down, she can’t disguise what many people perceive as a weakness. And, ultimately, that has been pivotal to her success, says Tada, 74. She wasn’t tempted to pretend she could do it all herself and she has always been well aware she needs help.So when Tada, an author and artist known mostly as just “Joni,” took the stage at this summer’s annual Global Leadership Summit held at Willow Creek, a Chicago-area megachurch, she told the pastors and other leaders gathered that if they want to succeed they are going to have to admit their imperfections.“The most effective leaders do...
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Pope Francis to ask forgiveness for church’s sins ahead of historic Vatican summit
17 Sep
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Pope Francis to ask forgiveness for church’s sins ahead of historic Vatican summit

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Top Stories Tamfitronics VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A newly released schedule for the second and final session of the Vatican Synod on Synodality underlines the Catholic Church’s plan to promote dialogue with other Christian denominations, enhance transparency and take responsibility for past mistakes.During a press conference on Monday (Sept. 16), organizers of the synod, centered around the theme “How to be a synodal church in mission?,” presented the next steps of the summit of bishops, which is scheduled for Oct. 3-27 at the Vatican.The synodal process will soon open to the entire church, said the general secretary of the synod, Cardinal Mario Grech, adding that after a three-year journey, “it is reaching its climax.”Pope Francis initiated the synod in 2021 asking all Catholic faithful to weigh in on the most important questions facing the institution,...
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Pay attention to what Trump lies about most
17 Sep
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Pay attention to what Trump lies about most

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — The most talked about moment from last Tuesday’s debate has turned out to be not the two candidates’ policy differences on health care or housing or even any real discussion about immigration but, rather, Donald Trump’s claim that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitians hired by local companies are stealing and eating other people’s household pets.“They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” said Trump in answer to a question about immigration, repeating a calumny that he and his ticket mate, JD Vance, had been retailing at their campaign rallies. “They’re eating the pets of the people who live there, and that is what’s happening in this country, and it is a shame.”The debate’s co-moderator, David Muir, the ABC news anchor whose network had actually fact-checked the...
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The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors
17 Sep
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The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors

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Top Stories Tamfitronics MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions.This violent death upset Mangi, who had already unearthed children’s bodies. The number of bodies kept rising in this community off Kenya’s coastline where extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of instructing his followers to starve to death for the opportunity to meet Jesus.While he sometimes sees the remains of others when he tries to sleep, Mangi said recently, the recurring image of his friend’s mutilated body torments him when he’s awake.“He died...
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