Editor’s Note: What follows is the first of two articles that Tod Bolsinger, author of Tempered Resilience, which is part of the Missio Alliance/IVP partnership line, has written in conjunction with our forthcoming Resilience, Race, and Resistance event on January 28th. Tod will be one of the keynote speakers at this event, and you can look forward to a second article from him afterwards.
As soon as I hit the “send” key, I felt nervousness set in. I worried that my request would reveal such a glaring weakness that it would make others doubt my capacity to lead. I had just written to an old mentor, Steve Yamaguchi, to ask him to take a role in my life that…
