musings on leadership in ministry
Last year I posted some running goals… I will run the 5 mile Olympic Park Run in March in under 40 minutes. I will run my first marathon in Edinburgh in May in under 4 hours 10 minutes. I will run the Great Scottish Run half marathon in Glasgow in September in under 2 hours. Read More …
Incarnation. Taking on flesh. God slipping into skin. Or that wonderful image from John’s Gospel of the Word moving into the neighbourhood. What a amazing image. Isn’t it? It’s hard to get your head around it though, that God would bother. That God would be so vulnerable, so tiny, so frail, so dependant. There are Read More …
We wish you all a hope-filled Christmas.
What’s missing today is a high-quality discourse on rethinking the design and evolution of the entire system from scratch. The quality of the results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which the people in the system operate. (Otto Scharmer) Since writing the first batch of posts on Missing Generations I’ve Read More …
How people learn has changed. I talked about learning preferences in part 1. This video shows just how much teaching and learning has moved on since I was at school. I wonder how much church has recognised and embraced these changes? Or, if the church has actually been at the forefront of them? I see Read More …
What spiritual practices do you do? Eh? What’s a spiritual practice? I wrote in my chapter of Inside Verdict that the church isn’t very good at helping members keep the promises they make. I promised to read the Bible, to pray and to join with other believers in worship. Reading the Bible is difficult. So Read More …
I’ve been one for 20 years. It began around 1989 when I completed the Boys’ Brigade’s King George IV officer cadet training and became a BB officer. I’ve worked with young people and the adults who work with them for all of my adult life. Most of this work has been in a church context Read More …