Leadership
Creative Initiatives in Theological Education
A theologian-friend asked for some ideas, for a conference-paper he’s giving… Preface: I’ve been privileged to have been a teacher/’adjunct prof’ at several seminaries in several countries, and although it’s difficult to generalize, here are a few of my thoughts in two sections: 1. Major Creative Initiatives: 1-1: Theological colleges preparing future pastors for pastoral […]
Church Covenant
BOX HILL BAPTIST CHURCH COVENANT As we are called together to be God’s people, we will live by the values and in the hope of God’s Kingdom. We will value each other as citizens of this Kingdom. As we are called to follow Jesus, we will model our lives on his leadership and teaching. In […]
Stewardship Campaigns: two views…
Financial stewardship [Reproduced from an online list, with the author’s permission]. If I were to commit my finances to the church in this day of thriftiness and economic carefulness in households (after all Interest rates keep rising), then surely I would be looking for value on my money. Let us start with the economic value […]
Australian clergy are fat
(From my Churches of Christ mate Alan Matheson.) Hi Rowland The Fin Review commissioned the survey; carried a 2 page discussion of the findings and despite clergy topping the list of overweight/obese professionals, they made no mention of the fact. Alan “Australian clergy are fat. Eighty per cent of ministers of religion are overweight or […]
Preachers and Presidents
By Alan Matheson – posted Monday, 10 March 2008 The way Americans do religion, particularly during presidential campaigns, bemuses and frequently scares the hell out of the rest of the world. Huckabee is “a second commandment Christian”; McCain is not certain if he’s a Baptist or an Apocalyptic Christian Zionist; and Clinton secretly prays with […]
Church Stewardship Campaigns
From a pastor-friend [I am suspicious of stewardship campaigns]… I remember one that went the other way – that is, after the dust had settled and the fees had been paid to the consultant, the bottom line was in the red and the consultant’s fees not recovered by increased offerings (indeed 6 months after the […]
Insights into Genuine Leadership
One of the classic books on leadership is A Tale of Three Kings, by Gene Edwards. This slim volume of wisdom tells the story of David, Saul and Absalom – three kings who approached leadership differently, and achieved vastly different results. Described as a study in brokenness, submission and authority, Edwards has crafted a riveting […]
Dynastic Churches
I wrote: I remember doing a seminar with an inner suburban Anglican church and asking them what their strengths are… ‘We’re a welcoming/friendly church’, they said. Then I asked ‘Think of the names of anyone who has been ‘welcomed’ here and has stayed more than a year, say in the last ten years’. They couldn’t […]
The Meaning behind all great advertising campaigns
New Fig Newtons Ad Preys On Inherent Human Weakness September 29, 2007 NEW YORK—A television commercial for Nabisco’s Fig Newton bars that debuted Friday preys on a wide range of innate human weaknesses, from greed and gluttony to the compulsive need for self-gratification in an otherwise cold and uncaring world, industry sources reported Monday. “Flattery, […]
Music in American Religious Experience
Sightings 1/17/08 — Philip V. Bohlman Sacred music sounds the landscapes of America, and it resounds American history. It marks place and time, and in so doing it realizes the very mobility with which Americans move across time and place. Sacred music is for many Americans the sound of the everyday, charting the intimate paths […]
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