The Importance of Institutional Accountability and Transparency

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I think rarely do people make their best decisions when they are exhausted, isolated, under exercised. Spiritual disciplines are there for our flourishing and we need to be able to take time off. A third thing I'll mention is the need for institutional accountability and transparency. If you get ensconced into an institution that itself is trying to act, abstract, obscurely trying to avoid transparency, it seems to me that that institution is going to start forming you.

We’ve witnessed story after story about the abuse of power practiced by Christians and Christian institutions. Does that mean that, to quote Lord Acton, that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?” How should followers of Jesus relate to the possibility of wielding power? Cherie Harder, the President of The Trinity Forum, is ideally suited to address these questions. She’s spent a lifetime in the corridors of power and shares a wealth of theological and practical wisdom on this important topic.

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For a helpful theological examination about power, check out Andy Crouch’s Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power.

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