Tag: Leadership
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Arbuckle: Refounding | Common Roots of All Religions | Why Do We Always Screw It Up?
Thanks to Mark for a great post around Gerald Arbuckles “From Chaos to Mission – Refounding Religious Life Formation“. He includes this diagram, which prodded me to think not only about how renewal occurs within religion, but more generally about how religions are founded. Mark notes: “Arbuckle talks about three stages; 1) Initial unease, the…
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Full Time Christian Leadership?
On a slightly behind the scenes UK Emerging Church discussion forum, the issue of leadership/ordination/vocation has reared its ugly head. I’ve posted on this fairly extensively before (post here / Self-Organizing Leadership series here), and I’ve a fuller article coming out on the subject in Relevant Leader shortly but wanted to just re-iterate some key…
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Freedom of Information ¦ Sodom and Gomorrah ¦ Power and Accountability
‘Thought for the Day’ this morning was an excellent piece by Martin Palmer. MP’s have recently voted to exclude themselves from their own Freedom of Information legislation – a move that has angered many. It seems the law-makers want everyone else to be accountable save themselves. Palmer made an interesting connection with Abraham’s bartering with…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] It’s Not the Winning That Matters, It’s… | The End of Strategy [5]
Just got back this afternoon from darkest Wales, where there was no internet, no mobile coverage, and virtually no radio reception either. Just a wonderful beach, and an old clap-board cottage. Great medicine. Nice to come back to some good debate though. I just wanted to write a final post in the series (may be)…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Constantine and ‘Power Church’ | The End of Strategy [4]
I’ve been attempting to argue over this series of posts that Jesus’ passion, in contrast to Judas’ scheming to catalyze Jesus into revolution, and Paul’s strategizing to get to Rome, critiques the power-plays that we try to make as Christians. Through Game Theory we have been duped into thinking our best strategy is to not…
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The Trouble with Black Boys | Where is Stage 4 Pentecostalism?
Tragically, last night a 3rd boy was shot dead in South London, the latest victim of a possibly-connected spate of black on black youth killings. The police have responded by saying they are going to have armed patrols on the streets now. Like that’s going to work. Two of the boys were shot in their…