Altruism and Sacrifice: Anglican Priests Managing ‘Intensive’ Priesthood and Motherhood

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes

Toward a Better Understanding of Transformational Leadership: Differentiating between Altruism and Self-Sacrifice

This paper distinguishes between self-sacrifice and altruism, and reports a cross-sectional survey of working managers (n = 127). The study tested how the two variables differentially affect transformational leadership. Results yielded evidence that altruism is a better predictor of transformational leadership than self-sacrifice is. The hypothesis that self-sacrifice would enhance the effect o...

To what extent can ‘The Country Parson’ by George Herbert be read as a spiritual text of relevance to Anglican priesthood and

It is evident that although George Herbert’s context was a different social and political world to today, some of his practise and theology still has meaning and can bring challenge to its reader, especially the practitioners of Anglican ministry. Herbert’s comprehensive spirituality embracing all of life, his view of scripture married with his practise of prayer and liturgy, and his emphasis o...

Probabilistic Programming in Anglican

Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We describe the implementation of Anglican and illustrate how its design facilitates both explorative and industrial use of probabilistic programming.