Rex Murphy has a really good column in the Globe and Mail about Danny Williams and how he treats those who disagree with them. In the end it isn’t a column about just about politics or Newfoundland but about those that confuse holding an office or position with being correct.
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The John Edwards Sales Pitch
Maureen Dowd on John Edwards For some reason, super-strivers have a need to sell what is secretly weakest about themselves, as if they yearn for unmasking. Edwards’s decency and concern for the weak in society — except for his own wife. Bill Clinton’s intellect and love of community — except for his stupidity and destructiveness [...]
The End of the Road for AOL?
Fast Company has a good article on what happened to AOL. This paragraph from the article seems to sum it up. In April 2005, he launched AOL Internet Phone, an entirely new product that he spent millions developing. To recoup costs, the monthly fee was set at almost double what competitor Vonage charged. “The rationale [...]
Manager vs. a Leader
John Maeda wrote this today A manager is the person that designs the construct of a line, sets the expectations for the line to form, thinks through how the line might be best composed and prioritized, and ensures that the queue is executed per spec. On the other hand, a leader is the person that [...]
Richard Dawkins as an "enthusiast"
On Becky’s blog she is quoting Richard Dawkins who makes the claim that he may be passionate but is not a fundementalist. No, please, do not mistake passion, which can change its mind, for fundamentalism, which never will. Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally [...]
Harambee’s Mission
I was surfing the websites of some friends tonight and was checking out Harambee’s website. If there was ever a reason to exists, their about page sums it up. In 1982, the neighborhood surrounding Harambee Center had the highest daytime crime rate in Southern California. The corner of Howard and Navarro, where we are located, [...]
Ecclessial Mercenaries
Soon after the Church of the Exiles website went live, I started to get some e-mails in asking me who was funding our little church plant. I think everyone assumed that either Resonate or the Free Methodist Church in Canada (through the Life Cycle Project) was funding it. They were shocked to find out that [...]
Review of The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
Published by Brazos Press :: Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca294 PagesWebsite: www.theforgottenways.org which also has an excellent weblog which is published by Alan HirschDisclaimer: Publisher (Brazos Press) sent me a free review copy but I would have purchased the book regardless. Before you start into the review, my initial thoughts on the book topped 9000 [...]
Assumptions Made About Youth Ministry
Mark Riddle has a wonder rant on all of the things that the church has grown to accept about youth ministry. 1. Youth pastor turnover- That a youth pastor will only stay for a short time.2. That the success or failure of the spiritual nurture of our kids is based primarily on the giftedness or [...]
Cultivate Gathering :: Leadership
Over at Resonate Audio,Jared Siebert from the Free Methodist Church in Canada and the Life Cycle Project is talking about leadership at the Cultivate Gathering. Jared learned his craft while planting Next Church in Kingston and now as life as a denominational stooge. Technorati Tags : Resonate, Cultivate+Gathering, emerging+church, leadership, Jared+Siebert
It was fun while it lasted
Willow Creek is canning Axis. Dan Kimball has some thoughts on “church within a church“. But when these new worship gatherings within a church are only generational and not considering the worldview changes – what mainly happens is that they then cater to those who grew up in that church or another church. People come [...]
An open letter to denominational leaders
The Free Methodist Church in Canada is pretty open to the emerging church. They hired Jared Siebert to help church planters and support emerging churches, they are supportive of Resonate, and they put up with me. I don’t have any axe’s to grind with them but not everyone is as supportive and when Charlie asked me [...]
Is Emergent the new Christian Left?
Leadership Journal asks… In December, Brian McLaren was arrested along with 115 other activists while peacefully protesting the federal budget that he believes unfairly treats the poor. As one of the most visible participants in Emergent Village, McLaren’s increasingly outspoken political views has some wondering—is Emergent a new camp for Christian liberalism? Tony Jones responds [...]
