TRIED AND TRUE THE COUNTERCULTURAL VIRTUES OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP
Leadership Recovering Timeless Leadership Vision for Contemporary Challenges August 25, 2026 RELIGION / Christian Living / Leadership & Mentoring 978-1-5140-1390-8, 248 Pages, PBK, 6 x 9 inches, $26.99
Tried and True offers a unique convergence of the decades of leadership experience of authors Margaret Diddams and Shirley Mullen with a historical exploration of John Wesley’s life and leadership. Informed by their personal and professional journeys in both higher education and corporate consulting, Diddams and Mullen provide a comprehensive and practical study of John Wesley’s leadership practices and his holistic view of leadership that transformed not just his immediate community but the shape of church history. In Tried and True , Diddams and Mullen: • revive John Wesley’s timeless leadership practices for modern challenges; and, • integrate inner character with outward community impact for a vision of sustainable leadership, and • offer a hopeful vision for today’s leaders and the communities they serve.
“ Tried and True offers a hopeful, accessible, and stirring Wesley-shaped vision of Christian leadership rooted in formation rather than performance. Through their formation trellis of surrender, stewardship, and servanthood, Margaret Diddams and Shirley Mullen give leaders a wise, countercultural framework for resisting the cult of charisma and leading with integrity amid the many disruptions challenging leaders today. This is the kind of book that can steady a leader’s soul and, over time, reshape the culture they serve” Tod Bolsinger, founder of AE Sloan Leadership and author of Canoeing the Mountains and the Practicing Change series
Margaret Diddams (PhD, NYU) is an industrial-organizational psychologist, former provost and chief academic officer of Wheaton College, and a former senior manager at Microsoft.
Shirley A. Mullen (PhD, University of Minnesota; PhD, University of Wales) served as president of Houghton University for fifteen years.
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