Announcement
Feb 02, 2026 Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership
Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership

Navigating the Organisational Landscape: A Scholar-Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Leadership was released last week on Zenodo and is now publicly available at https://zenodo.org/records/18407123 This book captures the essence of leadership as a disciplined integration of insight and action. Bringing together theory, lived experience, and practical

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Leadership Studies   -   Jan 30, 2026 Religious Governance Without Corporate Aggregation: Why Legal Form Matters for Fiduciary Accountability
Religious Governance Without Corporate Aggregation: Why Legal Form Matters for Fiduciary Accountability

What ultimately distinguishes governance regimes—understood here as legally constituted systems for allocating authority, fiduciary obligation, and control over assets across time—is not theology or organizational culture, but the presence or absence of a mediating legal person that interposes fiduciary obligation between individuals and property. In doctrinal terms, that

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Jan 29, 2026 From Oxford to the World: How Navigating the Organisational Landscape Came to Life
From Oxford to the World: How Navigating the Organisational Landscape Came to Life

Some books begin as proposals. Others begin as conversations. Navigating the Organisational Landscape: A Scholar-Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Leadership began as a promise made on a summer afternoon outside the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, after a world had changed and a cohort had endured it together. The book first

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Jan 23, 2026 Authority Is Not Governance: Why Moral Institutions Fail Without Knowing It
Authority Is Not Governance: Why Moral Institutions Fail Without Knowing It

One of the most persistent failures in moral and religious institutions is not malice, corruption, or even incompetence. It is a category error. Institutions collapse because they confuse authority with governance and only discover the difference when something goes wrong and responsibility can no longer be deferred. Authority answers the

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Sep 07, 2025 Ancient Voices in a Secular Age: Classical Authors and the Studia Humanitatis
Ancient Voices in a Secular Age: Classical Authors and the Studia Humanitatis

Submitted on August 25, 2015, to Professor Ben Lockerd as part of the doctoral course, LIT 7324 Literary Analysis: Great Ideas, Authors, and Writings. Studies in classical literature, such as Plato's Republic (Book X), Ion, and Phaedrus, Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's The Art of Poetry,

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Humane Letters   -   Sep 05, 2025 Grammar, Reason, and Eloquence: The Trivium in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon
Grammar, Reason, and Eloquence: The Trivium in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon

In the opening lines of his preface to The Metalogicon, translator Daniel D. McGarry invokes Horace’s enduring admonition to writers:  If ever you write anything, keep it to yourself for nine years, for what has never been divulged can be destroyed, but once published it is beyond recall. McGarry,

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership
Feb 02, 2026 Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership

Navigating the Organisational Landscape: A Scholar-Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Leadership was released last week on Zenodo and is now publicly available at https://zenodo.org/records/18407123 This book captures the essence of leadership as a disciplined integration of insight and action. Bringing together theory, lived experience, and practical

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Featured Articles 5 Articles
Latest Articles View All
Feb 02, 2026 Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership
Inside Navigating the Organisational Landscape: Three Perspectives on Modern Leadership

Navigating the Organisational Landscape: A Scholar-Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Leadership was released last week on Zenodo and is now publicly available at https://zenodo.org/records/18407123 This book captures the essence of leadership as a disciplined integration of insight and action. Bringing together theory, lived experience, and practical

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Leadership Studies   -   Jan 30, 2026 Religious Governance Without Corporate Aggregation: Why Legal Form Matters for Fiduciary Accountability
Religious Governance Without Corporate Aggregation: Why Legal Form Matters for Fiduciary Accountability

What ultimately distinguishes governance regimes—understood here as legally constituted systems for allocating authority, fiduciary obligation, and control over assets across time—is not theology or organizational culture, but the presence or absence of a mediating legal person that interposes fiduciary obligation between individuals and property. In doctrinal terms, that

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Jan 29, 2026 From Oxford to the World: How Navigating the Organisational Landscape Came to Life
From Oxford to the World: How Navigating the Organisational Landscape Came to Life

Some books begin as proposals. Others begin as conversations. Navigating the Organisational Landscape: A Scholar-Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Leadership began as a promise made on a summer afternoon outside the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, after a world had changed and a cohort had endured it together. The book first

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Jan 23, 2026 Authority Is Not Governance: Why Moral Institutions Fail Without Knowing It
Authority Is Not Governance: Why Moral Institutions Fail Without Knowing It

One of the most persistent failures in moral and religious institutions is not malice, corruption, or even incompetence. It is a category error. Institutions collapse because they confuse authority with governance and only discover the difference when something goes wrong and responsibility can no longer be deferred. Authority answers the

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Sep 07, 2025 Ancient Voices in a Secular Age: Classical Authors and the Studia Humanitatis
Ancient Voices in a Secular Age: Classical Authors and the Studia Humanitatis

Submitted on August 25, 2015, to Professor Ben Lockerd as part of the doctoral course, LIT 7324 Literary Analysis: Great Ideas, Authors, and Writings. Studies in classical literature, such as Plato's Republic (Book X), Ion, and Phaedrus, Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's The Art of Poetry,

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Humane Letters   -   Sep 05, 2025 Grammar, Reason, and Eloquence: The Trivium in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon
Grammar, Reason, and Eloquence: The Trivium in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon

In the opening lines of his preface to The Metalogicon, translator Daniel D. McGarry invokes Horace’s enduring admonition to writers:  If ever you write anything, keep it to yourself for nine years, for what has never been divulged can be destroyed, but once published it is beyond recall. McGarry,

by Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA
Your link has expired. Please request a new one.
Your link has expired. Please request a new one.
Your link has expired. Please request a new one.
Great! You've successfully signed up.
Great! You've successfully signed up.
Welcome back! You've successfully signed in.
Success! You now have access to additional content.