Category Archives: Leadership

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and Why No One Can Get (or Give) Any

May 8th, 2012

I’ve got about six months until I hit 50. That milestone isn’t sitting well with me, though. Part of my unrest is that the major tropes of my youth with regard to the accumulation of years have failed. Or perhaps I should say that I failed to fulfill them. By the time you are 50, [...]

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Various Spring Thursday Musings

April 12th, 2012

A variety of thoughts on this sunny April Thursday: + I was thinking how power is the modern equivalent of will. We want to have power over all aspects of our lives, with powerlessness one of the most hated of all hateful ideas. But if we take Christ’s “not my will, but yours, be done” [...]

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The Real Reason Why Young People Are Leaving the Church

March 26th, 2012

A few weeks back, I touched on the issue of the increasing loss of people under 30 years of age in our churches (“The Church’s Lost Tribe“). The post was less about my thoughts and more about reader explanations for why this well-documented loss is occurring. I’ll offer my thoughts today, but first, one more [...]

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