A couple of months ago Wendy remarked how impersonal my office was and it needed some personal touches. The two shades of light grey were not doing a lot for me either. A short while later I was in Wal-Mart and saw them blowing out some McFarlane sports figures and picked up a Derek Jeter. [...]
February, 2009:
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Experts say that the United States banking industry is essentially insolvent: Banks say that if that is true, where did we get all of the money for executive bonuses? Newsweek is reinventing itself for a smaller wealthier readership So in a recession, how big is the market for the $7000 suit? I don’t know about [...]
How Google Pulls the Plug
The New York Times on how Google decides which projects live or die. All of the shuttered projects failed several of Google’s key tests for continued incubation: They were not especially popular with customers; they had difficulty attracting Google employees to develop them; they didn’t solve a big enough problem; or they failed to achieve [...]
Rebuilding after a layoff
The New York Times has a good story on how hard it is for people laid of from General Motors to go on with their lives. He still has not decided whether to try to transfer to another G.M. plant, change occupations or return to school. Visiting the local United Automobile Workers hall recently, Mr. [...]
Tall Skinny Bailout
Andrew Jones is blogging on the debt dependent church. Here are some of the gems from the post I have seen a number of Seminary graduates come overseas to hang with us and to potentially find work in the "emerging church". After a short time, they have gone back to USA disappointed that there are [...]
So how are those missional theories working out for you?
Bill Kinnon had a wonderful post on a gathering of emerging church authors. One of the questions I would have asked of the assembled big guns is "How is this worked out in your own lives? Tell us about your involvement in local Christian community?" My fear is that only Dr. Morse and Dan Kimball [...]
John Stackhouse Critiques Chris Tomlin’s “writing”
His critique made me laugh out loud today I don’t know Chris Tomlin personally. I expect he’s a nice man and a devoted Christian. So please be clear that I’m not attacking his sincerity or his love of Jesus or anything else I can’t possibly judge. What the evidence shows, however, is that he is [...]
Emergency Shelter for Women and Children
The news just went live yesterday but after almost a year of working on this project, the Salvation Army Community Centre announced that we placed a conditional offer on a house in Pleasant Hill that will serve as an emergency shelter for women and children in Saskatoon. We have some rezoning to take care of, [...]
Being a Habs fan counts for something
I have known several die hard Montreal Canadiens fans over the years. They are obnoxious and arrogant and when the Habs are winning, they can be impossible to be around. The same can be said for Toronto Maple Leaf fans. They are also obnoxious, arrogant and the occasional times when the Buds are winning, they [...]
Chicago in March
I am attending the Salvation Army Social Services conference in March which will be held in Chicago. Our free time is extremely limited and we will be downtown on the Magnificent Mile. Other than Navy Pier and Sear’s Tower, what do I need to see in downtown Chicago? What restaurants should we eat at? Where [...]
