From the category archives:
three more bits that i wanted to post, but hadn’t gotten around to… ———— adam mclane, my good friend and former ys co-worker, went along with my on our late february trip to haiti (the youth ministry advance team: haiti). adam was so deeply moved that even before we flew home, he was saying, “i [...]
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(ht to fail blog) (here’s a reference photo of dan, for comparison:)
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so stoked to have my friend dan kimball review youth ministry 3.0, and call it out as a book all church leaders should read. dan is a great and unique mind, and has a quirky way of thinking and writing that i have often found almost as valuable as his friendship. here’s dan’s wonderful review: [...]
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i try to re-post my blogroll about every six months, but it’s been more than that since the last time; so here we go! here’s what i’ve got in my bloglines these days. i try to keep it paired down — i just don’t have time to read hundreds of blogs every day. but these [...]
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dave gibbons’ new book, the monkey and the fish, is a great look at the kind of perspective and leadership we need in the global church today. i’ll post a longer review of it soon. but there were so many moments, while reading it, that i felt like i was reading a parallel book to [...]
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i don’t know if i’d ever heard the word “liminal” until the last several years. if i had, i wasn’t familiar with it. in fact, when i noticed quite a few of my friends in the emerging church using the word, i had to look it up! since then, it’s become an important word and [...]
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not long ago, i started a discussion thread on the youth ministry 3.0 facebook group about how leading from values is “better” (not sure that’s the right word) than leading from goals. the response was discussion was fantastic, at least for me. so i thought i would bring a bit of it over here for [...]
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this is my final post in this ‘best of 2008′ series. as i looked back over my blogging from 2008, these were my favorite posts: thinking: organizational thinking, part 2 horton hears a who and the culture of fear my stake in the ground on male pronouns for god ys stuff: pittsburgh nywc, monday morning [...]
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