4 Ducere Est Servire: THE LEADERSHIP JOURNAL OF DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY Preface Dr. Blake Killingsworth Dean, Cook School of Leadership Thank you for taking the time to engage with the third volume of our journal, Ducere Est Servire: To Lead is to Serve. Throughout the pages that follow, you will be challenged and stretched in your understanding of leadership as well as its applications in a variety of contexts. I am grateful for the vision of this journal that came from our DBU President, Dr. Adam Wright, as well as our former Dean of the Cook School of Leadership, Dr. Jack Goodyear. It also goes without saying that none of this would happen without the perseverance of Dr. Michael Whiting, who serves as editor of the journal. Thanks to his diligence, and the contributions of so many, this journal is available to provide tremendous insight and has allowed DBU to further engage in the “Great Conversation” of the academy. In 1995, historian Mark Noll released a book entitled, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Standing in a tradition of like-minded Christian scholars, including C.S. Lewis, John Stott, Arthur Holmes, and George Marsden, Noll lamented the trend of anti-intellectualism that far too often had come to characterize modern evangelicalism. Growing up in a Baptist church, I had unknowingly been shaped by an anti-intellectualism and a type of baptized dualism that valued only the spiritual world and treated every aspect of the physical realm as a distraction to the Christian life. While an undergraduate at DBU, I came to see how insular and myopic that worldview really was, and thanks to classes with David Naugle, Todd Still, and Mike Williams, I was exposed to a vast array of areas of exploration, eventually choosing the vehicle of history to begin my journey. Right before I left DBU to begin my graduate studies, I struck up a conversation with a gentleman at church. He was a wonderful Christian man, and my wife and I would babysit his kids from time to time.
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