Excerpt from Afterword

For what can be more prejudicial to the interests of intelligence,
than to falsify our real sentiments, to conceal the doubts
which we feel in regard to our statements,
or to maintain the validity of grounds of proof
which we well know to be insufficient?
Immanuel Kant


There are also these proverbs of Solomon . . .
God delights in concealing things; scientists delight in discovering things.
Like the horizons for breadth and the ocean for depth, the understanding
of a good leader is broad and deep. Remove impurities from the silver
and the silversmith can craft a fine chalice; remove the wicked from leadership
and authority will be credible and God-honoring.
Proverbs 25:1-5 (MSG)


tap(quote) The vision is this: Continue to proclaim the Word of God and growing vision of your heart. Work with funders and investors who are like-hearted and innovative. Recruit directors from various fields of discipline who are lovers of God and people and sit them around a common table. Develop a team of friends around values like humility, mutual reciprocity, and interdependence. Establish circles of quiet around 10,000 young kingdom leaders, master cadets; discover them internationally; develop them locally; and deploy them globally, together building abbeys of prayer and work.

Unite public and private companies that will collaborate together in building abbeys of prayer and work. Launch a bank and venture capital group that will treasure the pennies, nickels, and dimes of people who will partner in the building and maintaining of these abbeys. Make this consortium of prayer and work so stable and attractive that financial advisors could offer it as a product.

Create guilds of professionals, artists, and praying saints from various disciplines. Among others, invite the translator, intercessor, theologian, intellectual, politician, administrator, doctor, surgeon, nurse, athlete, musician, dancer, artisan, jeweler, engineer, software developer, textile manufacturer, fair trade advocate, financial officer, lawyer, oil and gas executive, bio-diesel entrepreneur, green-house developer, gardener, architect, photographer, journalist, actor, and film director to speak into the development of these abbeys of prayer and work.

Make sure these well-designed abbeys employ refugees and the poorest of the poor, who will have their own fresh water wells, power grids, waste management systems, communications hubs, financial institutions, lush farms, clean factories, bio-diesel facilities, well-supplied hospitals, schools, orphanages, and homes for the elderly…

Through every spiritual, physical, and technological means available, unite people, leaders, churches, businesses, governments, and generous financiers into stronger solidarity and more frequent serendipities. (unquote)

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