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The Leading Causes of Life is a theory, but it is also visible in practices that arise out of the confluence of faith and health. Better viewed as a potent set of questions rather than of self-contained answers, LCL theory gives leaders operating in the context of complex, fluid, turbulent community challenges a way envisage the life of the whole. Part of a larger suite of ideas emerging at the intersection of faith and health at public scale, it is also part of a larger scientific curiosity about how order emerges, is sustained, and moves toward higher order in complex systems.
The framework includes five overarching concepts that are taken to be definitive of generative life processes:

Coherence, connection, agency, hope and intergenerativity. 


Each of these concepts covers a particular field of thought and practice, and within each, various strands of other research can be gathered. The real innovation of the LCL Framework lies precisely in its claim to be a comprehensive view that is capable of integrating a wide range of perspectives and ideas from multiple disciplines in a way that provides the ground for shifting the general paradigm of how we understand health and well-being.


Leading Causes of Life has a way of rolling, somewhat like a 'murmuration,' something starlings do, a beautiful example of emergent, dynamic complexity that cannot be explained by inorganic or linear logic, only by life.
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Murmuration by Paul Laurienti


Life is what it is about I want no truck with death.
– Pablo Neruda
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I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursings; therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.
– Deuteronomy 30:19

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Musings from our fellows

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems by Charmian Love and Rachel Sinha

A white-haired clergyman leans forward in deep, intent conversation with a lady with a shaved head.

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Understanding Violent Behaviour in South Africa by Masana Ndinga-Kanga

The current state of affairs across the world has made peace and security a pressing concern not just in policy circles, but also in public discourse.


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City of Light by Gary Gunderson
Every religion is dangerous. Like fire, wind and water, religion is a fundamental element of human life that can drown, blast and burn. Religion guides our fear and frames our shame. 

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