Journal Title: Journal of Religious Leadership
Volume & Issue: Vol. 24, No. 2
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Year: 2025
Page Range: 116-142
In this article, we reimagine Servant Leadership education by confronting the ways it is often co-opted to promote compliance and surface-level virtue. Drawing on Robert Greenleaf’s lesser-known writings and informed by critical pedagogical theory, we propose shifting Servant Leadership from a leader-centered model to one rooted in communal formation and institutional healing. We highlight key pedagogical practices, emphasize culturally expansive frameworks, and explore Servant Leadership as a relational and developmental process grounded in trust, discernment, and power. Rather than codifying a particular version of SL, we invite educators to teach it as a living practice, a way of forming people and communities, grounded in shared responsibility and transformation.