Thomas A. Shakely’s Blog

Books

Fr. Dubay On ‘Deep Conversion/Deep Prayer’

A friend of mine from years ago recently gave me a great little book called Deep Conversion/Deep Prayer. Written by Thomas Dubay, a retreat master and spiritual director for religious communities around the country, he is highly regarded in the American religious community.
Father Dubay’s book was in part a response “to the call by both [...]

Books, Faith / Religion

Book Notes: ‘Real Change’ By Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s latest public policy book Real Change is a superb, practical roadmap for achieving positive transformation in American government. The book was published in January and, though finished prior to “change” becoming the buzzword of Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is now perhaps particularly apropos.
I cannot begin to do justice to Real Change and [...]

Books, Government, Leadership

Notes on ‘Lessons on Leadership from Newt Gingrich’

Newt Gingrich recently spoke on leadership at the Young Republican Convention in Washington, D.C. I didn’t find out about the convention until afterward, but the entire video of the speech was posted on YouTube. While the speech and the setting are both political, Gingrich is speaking on leadership in non-partisan sense and his lessons are [...]

Books, Leadership
Thomas A. Shakely’s Blog

Twitter links powered by Tweet This v1.5.1, a WordPress plugin for Twitter.