Category: Ecclesia

Saturday Links

Sep 8, 2013

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1. How effective has the Millennium Villages Project been? Here is a recent Op Ed in the NYT the Millennium Villages Project by Joe Nocerra, Fighting Poverty, and Critics. 2. Global Economic Growth Has Hit A Two-And-A-Half Year High 3. What Every U.S. Family Really Needs for a Minimum Living Standard … Computers have become…
Saturday Links

Aug 10, 2013

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1. Phillip Swagel with a good piece on Inequality and Opportunity … I am not convinced, however, that the president's proposals are well matched to the problem he describes. Indeed, Mr. Obama is better at describing the outcomes he seeks than at putting forward a coherent set of policies to reach those outcomes. But I…
David Fitch on a New “Order” of Clergy

Aug 6, 2013

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in Christian Life, Ecclesia, Vocation

Reclaiming the Mission: Create a New ‘Order’ of Clergy: A Recommendation to Denominations – David Fitch … I suggest there is a need for a new order of clergy (if I may call it that): a missional leader who can understand the relationship between work and ministry so that it is seamless. He or she…
Saturday Links

Aug 3, 2013

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1. Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. 2. Blacks, Hispanics more optimistic than whites … After years of economic attitudes among whites, blacks and Hispanics following similar patterns, whites' confidence…
Saturday Links

Jul 13, 2013

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I skipped Saturday Links last week due to the holiday weekend. I'm catching up this week. 1. Faith in the Free Market "… Selke, now 36, is part of a vanguard of young Christians who believe that God uses not only the church and formal ministry but every sphere of society, including business and free…
Saturday Links

Jun 29, 2013

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1. The Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class A favorite "progressive" trope is that America's middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton's labor secretary, is typical: "After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to…
Why Some Companies Seem To Last Forever

Jun 26, 2013

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Business Insider: Why Some Companies Seem To Last Forever … What explains this longevity? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Charles O’Reilly calls it "organizational ambidexterity": the ability of a company to manage its current business while simultaneously preparing for changing conditions. "You often see successful organizations failing, and it's not obvious why they should fail," O’Reilly says. The…
Saturday Links

Jun 15, 2013

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1. More deaths than births among whites Last year, more people who are white and not Hispanic died than were born, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. That group is still the USA’s largest but its share of the total has been shrinking for years. 2. Human Population Growth Creeps Back Up Earth's human population is…
Saturday Links

May 25, 2013

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1. The Atlantic says Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat 2. 100 fastest growing inner city businesses From a pet relocation service, a wine lifestyle marketer, to a scrap metal regenerator, America's urban core is home to a variety of fast-growing companies. Here's the top…
Saturday Links

May 11, 2013

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1. The High Calling published an article I wrote. I linked it earlier, but here it is again in an act of shameless self-promotion. It goes to some core issues I'm trying to put into a book. Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship 2. Should Pastors Know How Much…