Leadership
Review: Alexander Shaia, The Hidden Power of the Gospels
Alexander Shaia (with Michelle Gaugy), The Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey, Harper One, 2010. Now here’s an interesting ‘take’ on the Gospels. Shaia’s approach doesn’t win the approval of some (most?) New Testament scholars. But the names of the people whose endorsements appear on the back cover (Brian McLaren, […]
SMALL GROUPS: What does a really healthy small group look like?
WHAT DOES A REALLY HEALTHY SMALL GROUP LOOK LIKE? Christians have always met in small groups – leaders like Jesus and John Wesley built their ministries/movements around them… Small groups where Christians study, share, pray, and ‘mission’ together come in many sizes and formats. (It’s unlikely that a Pentecostal who ‘prays in the Spirit’ for […]
Good Leaders Cause Trouble
Paul R Smith: Leading Change and Causing Trouble (2011) What institutions do best is defend themselves against change. Churches do it particularly well because they think they are defending God. “Come weal or woe, we want our status quo.” What can we expect of our religious leaders in moving our churches into higher levels? Often, […]
A Talk to Salvation Army Seniors
Good morning friends. The location for this event – in the Crossway Church auditorium, and 50 metres from the Australian World Vision HQ – is all somewhat ‘deja-vu-ish’ for me: I spent nearly two decades working for a previous incarnation of these two institutions… My first contact with a Salvation Army person was with Mrs […]
Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing
An Idiot’s Overview Of Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing By Alan Hart December 08, 2011 “Information Clearing House” — The idiot of the headline is me in the sense that I am not an economist and have never had any formal association with study of the theory and practise of economics, but… I began to […]
Sitting Is Deadlier Than Smoking, Researchers Say
New research published in The Lancet says that as many as 10 percent of all deaths are caused by being sedentary — more than the amount of deaths from smoking. Researchers from Harvard Medical School analysed global data on deaths in 2008 and tracked the number of deaths they believed resulted from conditions that could be attributed to inactivity, like […]
How to Stop Sleeping with Your Smart Phone
By GARY BELSKY | @garybelsky | May 17, 2012 | 1 FUSE / GETTY IMAGES In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with the Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior. It was a worthy […]
Medicine Man Chief
Medicine Man Chief : published by two Kiwis, Renier Greeff & Trevor W. King in 2002, is a story about how humans live in tribes – ancient/modern, traditional/Western – and the dynamic roles of Chief and Medicine Men/ Women in the life of the tribe/group/church/nation. The publisher’s blurb says: Tribal life is the relational way human […]
Ten Cliches Christians Should Never Use
Maybe ‘use with caution’: food for thought here… July 6, 2012 By Christian Piatt We Christians have a remarkable talent for sticking our feet in our mouths. When searching the words most commonly associated with “Christian,” the list ain’t pretty. I think part of this can be attributed to a handful of phrases that, if stricken from […]
Leadership just twittered away
Thomas Friedman June 30, 2012 TRAVELLING in Europe last week, it seemed as if every other conversation ended with some form of this question: why does it feel like so few leaders are capable of inspiring their people to meet the challenges of our day? There are many explanations for this global leadership deficit, […]
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