Ragstack
John RagsdaleThe Ragstack is a space for thinking seriously about joy—not as sentiment or “fun,” but as the kind of fuel that gives meaning to work, depth to community, and staying power to leadership.
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Cultivation! It's the New Collaboration.
Collaboration.
One of the foremost of the buzzwords in higher education.
We use it a lot. And, I mean A LOT!
For example, when trying to find a new dean, we spell out that we want a collaborative leader. Someone who will listen, not a lo...
If You'll Listen to Him, You'll Learn Something
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“If you’ll listen to him, you’ll learn something.”
I was praying for our son Josh around the time of his first birthday–today’s his 44th–and this is the message God dropped in my heart. I still remember that...
The French Aren't Wrong about Everything
Every May it’s the same thing. Caps. Gowns. Speeches.
Followed by exhaustion.
Such is the life of the educator.
In truth, we’re probably exhausted a few weeks before commencement. But we endure it for a while. Then we just fake it until...
Didn't Think This Would Happen
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It feels significant.
Maybe it isn’t to others.
It is to me.
For 40 weeks in a row, I’ve written these Ragstack essays.
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The Day the Fly Was the Teacher
I know this sounds a little crazy, but we could learn some system lessons from the eye of the fly. (Sorry, Sly, not the Eye of the Tiger this time.)
This line of thinking started because we had a fly buzzing around the house the other day,...
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I'm the provost at Asbury Theological Seminary. I love working with our faculty and staff to educate people for missional ministry. I'm also captivated by joy. So, whatever I write, I'm always asking, "Where's the joy here?"
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