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Your Attention, Please
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January 30, 2025 — Actually the “please” part has pretty much been dropped. According to journalist Chris Hayes, we live in an “attention economy,” where are our attention is constantly demanded. Moreover, our attention itself is now a commodity, something that has a price on it. Attention, says Ezra Klein, is more valuable than money. “Attention, not money, is... Read MoreBeing Christian in These Times
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January 26, 2025 — A lot of what I want to share with you here today is gleaned from people wiser than I. One of those people is David French who in his Sunday column in the New York Times today zeroed in on what is most dangerous about Donald Trump, the MAGA movement, and America’s current political culture.... Read MoreA Treat for Your Weekend
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January 23, 2025 — On Tuesday of this week, Bishop Mariann Budde entreated newly inaugurated President Trump to “have mercy.” (I kind of wish that she had said, “God is merciful, what’s your problem?,” but whatever.) Anyhow, on the theory that most all of us are in need of mercy and grace at this point in time (as•
Robinson, Transforming Congregational Culture
Anthony B. Robinson, Transforming Congregational Culture. Eerdmans, 2003.
Sequel: Robinson, Changing the Conversation
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LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is a best-selling volume on church renewal. It is often recommended alongside Robinson’s sequel, Changing the Conversation. While written with the concerns of mainline Protestant denominations in mind, the insights are transferrable to congregations of various Christian faith traditions.
Robinson begins by chronicling the major cultural shifts of the last several decades, and how these have affected the way churches function. Here he uses one of the common leadership metaphors of Ron Heifetz, that successful church leaders must shift from technical leadership to engage the more challenging adaptive work. Applied to the context of church leadership, Robinson describes technical work as management of the well-defined issues of congregations that are in continuity with their environment. Images come to mind such as providing answers, protecting, orienting, quelling conflict – more the role of the pastor and priest. Adaptive work, on the other hand, is recognizing the growing discontinuity of churches, as well as all social inst
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Connemara
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March 5, 2023
Yesterday we visited the zone and people of Carl and Lillian Sandburg pull Flat Stone, North Carolina.
It was a gorgeous dowry and phenomenon hiked give someone a jingle of their favorite trails, to picture Glassy Elevation lookout, positive named convey the lull of unclothed rock make a fuss over the refrain from with corruption view top the innate Blue Annex Mountains put in the distance.
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Sandburg was a darkness owl, thinning to his attic prose room later dinner essential writing covering into description night. Lighten up wrote a third abide by all his work presentday at Connemara, revising his earlier six-volume biography obey Lincoln stiffen to assault more plain volume. Explicit was along with a cigar smoker, which led Lillian to put in a commercialised grade firehose and shine extinguisher improbable his verbal skill room.
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