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Lecture: Giving Voice to Values: The “How” of Values-driven Leadership
The Bill Greehey School of Business invites you to a lecture by Mary Gentile, Ph.D. "Giving Voice to Values: The "How" of Values-driven Leadership" Mary Gentile, a senior research scholar at Babson College in Massachusetts, is the founding director of Giving Voice to Values, the internationally acclaimed business curriculum that helps individuals better voice and act on their values. Her pioneering approach to values-driven leadership has been featured in top-tier academic journals and piloted in more than 485 business schools…
Find out more »Water Captains: Making the Texas Water Planning Process Work for Everyone
Presentation by Rev. Sam Brannon, Outreach and Engagement Specialist with the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy and Texas Impact. The desired outcome from this presentation is to form a diverse planning group that will organize a workshop for other residents in our water planning region of Texas. The focus of the workshop would be on the way that the water planning process works and how citizens can participate in that process. We are especially looking for folks who have…
Find out more »Palestine-Israel in the 21st Century
Luke Peterson, visiting professor in Contemporary International Issues at the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, will present “Palestine-Israel in the 21st Century: Ending Endless War.” Peterson will discuss the current political situation in Palestine-Israel with an eye to a solution to the conflict that has eluded politicians and peace-makers for decades. He will speak from a perspective which emphasizes the universality of human rights and the need for social justice in any potential peace settlement in the Middle East.…
Find out more »The Merchant of Venice @ Classic Theater
February 13 through March 1st: William Shakespeare's play about justice & mercy: PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear…
Find out more »The Black Church in the Public Square
The Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith is senior pastor of Oakland, California’s Allen Temple Baptist Church whose membership has reached over 5,500. His son, James Alfred Smith, Jr., is also a minister and serves as the church’s co-pastor. Smith is a professor of preaching and church ministry at American Baptist Seminary of the West. He is the author of several books including Outstanding Black Sermons, Blessing Those Who Mourn, Giving to a Giving God, On The Jericho Road, and Speak…
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