Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.


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Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in th...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I w...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A ch...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearl...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuma...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in t...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through t...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not eve...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the esca...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of '...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the number...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutio...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic coura...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publi...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorit...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Mortality defines the human condition.
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense th...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
I always seem to be reading several books at once.
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping endu...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
It's all just practice for the next time
JAMES E. BROWN JR.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS