Leadership
Management fads vs Thought
By Leon Gettler April 26, 2006 ASKED why managers always went for bad advice or ignored solid evidence, the late management thinker Peter Drucker replied: “Thinking is very hard work. And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking.” That’s why the marketplace for business ideas is booming. In addition to the pulped forests of […]
The Art of Self Leadership
February 13, 2006 The Art of Self Leadership Your toughest management challenge is always yourself. Bill Hybels Imagine a compass-north, south, east, and west. Almost every time the word leadership is mentioned, in what direction do leaders instinctively think? South. Say the word leadership and most leaders’ minds migrate to the people who are under […]
The Pastoral Journey
THE PASTORAL JOURNEY by Ross Kingham 1. BEING THERE FOR OTHERS 2. BEING THERE FOR SELF 3. BEING THERE FOR GOD INTRODUCTION: CONCERNING THE NATURE OF PERSON Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the concept of the soul was a mainstay in the understanding of persons that was advanced by theologians and philosophers and […]
Challenging the (Anglican) church hierarchy
Challenging the church hierarchy By GABRIELLE RISH 09apr06 THE knives are well and truly out in Australia’s Anglican community. And right now they’re pointed squarely at church laywoman and author Muriel Porter. Porter’s clinical dissection of the rich and powerful Sydney diocese reveals the bitterness of decades of fighting for female ordination (a battle won […]
Copyright for churches
Hi all A good basic summary of the most important copyright issues for churches. From a Sydney copyright lawyer and Youthworks, Sydney. http://www.feva.org/pdf/copyright.pdf April 2006
Church Attendance in Australia
Australian church attendance A pastor-friend asked: The National Church Life Survey showed that in 1960 41% of the Australian population attended church at least monthly, but by 1980 this figure had declined to 25% and was heading down to 20% by 2000. (Kaldor, Peter et. al. Build My Church: Trends and Possibilities for Australian Churches. […]
The Email that ignited a parish war
By Paola Totaro March 25, 2006 IT WAS a cheerful, upbeat exchange of emails between good friends. The sender, a loyal Anglican, used tinges of blue humour – as well as several light-hearted biblical references – to question women’s subordination and why male but not female lay members of her eastern suburbs congregation were allowed […]
Search to Belong
The Search to Belong Joseph Myers The Myth of Belonging Community is a complex creature. Many factors contribute to finding successful community. With the erosion of the geographically close family and the heightened mobility of our culture, many people struggle to learn healthy competencies for community. Schools, service agencies, churches, and other organizations are making […]
Pentecostal churches grow in U S
Pentecostal and so-called non-mainline Protestant churches show continuing growth in the United States, while mainstream churches continue to lose membership, according to the latest annual figures on US church membership 2006 Yearbook of Churches reflects ‘robust immigrant history in U.S. New York, March 30, 2006 — The National Council of Churches’ 2006 Yearbook of American […]
Pastors: Put on Your Own Oxygen Masks First
Bill Easum, who has been a good guide and friend for the North Alabama Conference, has a new book for pastors: Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First: Rediscovering Ministry (Bill Easum, with Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004). Here are some of my notes on Easum’s book, notes that I think will give […]
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