Rabbi Edwin Friedman, a Bowen Family Systems therapist, when he died in October 1996, had what would be his book almost ready for publication. It was published three years later. The title was Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix.[1] Many Episcopal priests and bishops had studied under Ed. Church Publishing put out a polished, professional edition in 2007. For those of us who studied with Ed, we had heard his first chapter as a lecture.
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