Glee

My new guilty pleasure is Fox’s “Glee.” I love it, but because the content is not typically aligned with my convictions, I feel guilty about liking it. Though I’m not crazy about all the moral/ethical leanings of the show, I think there is something there to learn from “Glee” – and that’s what I like. [...]

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The Candle Problem

This is some of the most thought-provoking work on motivation I’ve heard. If Dan Pink is correct, it should change everything in the place you work.
Here some thoughts/insights/ questions brought to my mind by Pink.
1. People have to be invested in the organizational mission/goals for this to work. Oftentimes employees can go through difficult times [...]

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The Diversity Culture — an overstated review

This is my review of Matthew Raley’s “The Diversity Culture,” which was posted at Viral Bloggers.
I picked up Matthew Raley’s. “The Diversity Culture” with great anticipation. Raley is a pastor in my new neck-of-the-woods, dealing with the same social, cultural and spiritual challenges that I have, and the topic – Christian engagement with others – [...]

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A Question Of Preaching

What makes good preaching? Do you have any idea? I don’t know that I do. I was trained by some of the absolute best homileticians anywhere, who, in turn were trained be great homileticians, so I have a very specific — and, in some ways, theologically acedemic — view of the preaching event. I have [...]

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