Category: Religion
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5 Things I’ve Learned in 5 Weeks Out of Church – Tom LeGrand
Perspectives: 5 Things I’ve Learned in 5 Weeks Out of Church – Tom LeGrand Consider this official. I am issuing an apology to every member of every church that I have served over the last 20+ years. … … But this Sunday Sabbatical has also illustrated some things to me, particularly now that I am working a 9-to-5…
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Learning to Fail Fast (in the church)
Lewis Center for Church Leadership: Learning to Fail Fast "… Petrie advocates what he calls "vertical development" or the advancement in a person's capacity to think in "more complex, systemic, strategic, and interdependent ways (in contrast to horizontal development that adds knowledge, skills, and competencies). New leaders must think differently before they can act differently.…
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Is Evangelical Morality Still Acceptable in America?
Alan Noble has a very good piece in the Atlantic: Is Evangelical Morality Still Acceptable in America? He doesn't define exactly what he means by "Evangelical Morality," but clearly, he is talking about people who hold more traditionalist views on a set of moral issues. Here are some excerpts: "… Behind all of these charges…
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Why the West Progressed in Ways No One Else Had
I just read Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances & Joseph Gies. The book focuses on technological development during the 1,000 years from 500-1500 C.E. The Middle Ages was once cast as an age of regression from the golden age of Greece and Rome until the Renaissance and…
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Economic Boom in Africa – Philip Jenkins
Christian Century: Economic Boom in Africa – Philip Jenkins When I lecture on global Christianity, I am sometimes asked whether, in retrospect, I would revise what I wrote many years ago in books like The Next Christendom. Usually my answer is no. But in one critical area conditions are changing so quickly as to demand…
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A Happy Life May not be a Meaningful Life
Scientific American: A Happy Life May not be a Meaningful Life Tasks that seem mundane, or even difficult, can bring a sense of meaning over time. Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl once wrote, "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose." For most people, feeling happy and…