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The End

After three years of blogging, I have decided to end this blog. Over the past three years, I have put many hours of energy designing this website to reflect my thoughts and musings. At one point, I included a photo gallery of my photographs and the list of books I ...

Leadership Insight 47: Love, Wisdom, Humility

This post should really be titled, "Three lessons I learned about leadership from Sarah Palin." Actually, it could also be titled, "Three warnings from Sarah Palin's leadership." The ex-governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party has left her job as governor of Alaska to pursue some other ...

Happy Birthday!

Today marks the third anniversary of this blog. Three years ago, I launched this blog as a venue to share my thoughts, isnights, reflections and commentary. Some statistics of the past 3 years: 565 posts and 819 comments with over 46,000 hits. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this ...

Leadership Insight 46: Calling and Commitment

As I process with young students whether they should pursue leadership, I often run into two responses: one set of students will take leadership as an almost given. They have little hesitation to take on a more significant leadership role (many of these students are too quick to say yes ...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-04

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-27 http://tinyurl.com/m73nbk # Sin of our culture: feeling guilty for being unproductive for 24 hours once a week # Checking out another church this morning. Who needs more prep, my 4 year old or me? # Book Review: Economics in Christian Perspective by Claar and Klay ...

Loving our neighbors: Who is loving whom?

In the past two weeks, I have enjoyed observing how students are wrestling with issues of poverty and economics, race and class, and God's heart and intentions for our world. As students sit through hours of input, they have had plenty of opportunities to see some of the "abstract" teachings ...

Leadership Insight 45: Freedom to fail

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." --- Sir Winston Churchill "Look at entrepreneurs. All of the business literature indicates that starting a business is a phenomenally stupid thing to do. Most new businesses fail, and not simply because most would-be entrepreneurs are actually ...

Equity vs Equality

Doing cross-cultural relationships well is an important and biblical value. The Apostle Paul spent much of his energy, a good portion of his writings, and gambled his relational influence to make sure that the young church would not only value but be a multi-ethnic community. Crossing cultures can be complicated ...

Book Review: Economics in Christian Perspective by Claar and Klay

The authors wrote this book when they concluded that most people who critique economics from a Christian perspective are not economists. As they write in their preface, "while several currently available books approach economic issues from a Christian perspective, most are unconcerned with basic notions of economic theory... due to ...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-27

I'm finally home. It's been too long. http://twitpic.com/7xude # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-20 http://tinyurl.com/nwkzk9 # LAUP Day 3: Learning to open our eyes and look. Seems like most people refuse to look. # Challenge from LAUP: Christian unity is the reconciliation and peace between culture/race/ethnicity, not doing things ...