Description We resist change less when we associate it with mission and fortify it with hope.
So argues longtime congregational consultant Peter Steinke in his fourth book, A Door Set Open , as he explores the relationship between the challenges of change and our own responses to new ideas and experiences.
Steinke builds on a seldom-explored principle posited by the late Rabbi Edwin Friedman: the 'hostility of the environment' is proportionate to the 'response .
Alban Institute, Inc Door set open. grounding change in mission and hope, paperback/peter l. steinke
