There’s been little reading for pleasure lately. It’s only when I come to blog about my readings on life and leadership that I realise how bad that situation has become! Instead I have been reading for research, I have been reading for lectures on a Biblical Perspectives course I’m due to start teaching next month … Continue reading
Listen to Jana Sundene in Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults (Dunn and Sundene): Because I have been a disciple-maker for many years, mentoring hundreds of women…and leading countless fruitful small groups, I can start to feel pretty confident in my abilities as I see my life impact others. I cannot, however, be sure that I am making a spiritual impact that will truly … Continue reading
…we become captured by the impression that technology makes place irrelevant. Once we buy into this language of networks and third spaces, we are essentially buying into a conception of radical individualism in which we create, manage, and control spaces and time and where we intentionally attract (or avoid) particular kinds of people at the … Continue reading
The week before this was quite a good week for finishing books. I like weeks like that, mostly because it frees up more space on my shelf of half-read books! (For those who like my updates in the book saga, there’s a photo here; as you will see, I’ve put those classy new Argos shelves … Continue reading
Tuesday was a good day; I was handed three books to read which had been newly-bought for the college library. Ostensibly, they are potentially relevant as background to my research, although actually we all know that I’d read as many titles about leadership and church as I can get my hands on. (They’re always better … Continue reading
Entering the presence of another human being is like entering a cathedral. The appropriate response is awe. With our eyes open to the wonder of another person, suddenly we are in the presence of something greater than ourselves. Even though we too are human, somehow the other is greater than we are, because the other … Continue reading
Well, it seems that the preach I inflicted on a congregation in the college chapel service this week went quite well in the end. I did spend the two hours before I preached in a bit of a fog, wandering round college too many times rather aimlessly as I tried to kill the time! At … Continue reading
Here’s an excerpt from one of my latest reading delights… For over thirty years I have been pursuing a desperate course with an impossible speed. It is not that I have been misguided – only that I have forgotten to see, feel, touch, and taste. I would not retrace a single step – yet I … Continue reading
Here’s another Allender and Longman gem (Intimate Allies, for those who have not been following me lately 🙂 ): God does not exclusively fill the human heart. He made humankind to need more than himself. The staggering humility of God to make something that was not to be fully satisfied with the Creator and the creation … Continue reading
This post is entirely personal. No authors. No Scripture. Just a little reflection on life. And, in this case, authentic relationship. A friend of mine was honest with me yesterday. They told me that a telephone conversation we’d had the other day had been difficult for them. I knew it had been but hadn’t known … Continue reading
The Art of Steering 