leadership in ministry
This evening I’m meeting up with Thomas aka Headphonaught for a chat about Tribes (book or audio), the new book by Seth Godin. Our chat is being recorded as part of the Something Beautiful podcasts so I’ll try to speak clearly and even make sense. All I’ll say for now is that I liked the Read More …
I’m home for less than 24 hours between a team meeting in Derbyshire and a training event in Nairn. It’s funny how ideas come together. The other night I watched a couple of TED talks. One was from Eve Ensler of Vagina Monologues fame who spoke passionately about ‘safety’ and how people who try to Read More …
It all seems like a bit of a blur. I feel as if I’ve been here forever and it’s only been 2 and a half days. It’s not one of those ‘when will this end?’ kind of events, just one that has you up at 7am and not in bed until very late. When you Read More …
Where has the time gone!?!?! I’ve known about NYA2008 for ages and been working on it for months and I’m still not done! How come? I got the programme information today and it looks amazing! Some really good stuff happening about mental health and the human library sounds fascinating. My sessions? Well, Authenticity, Information, Privacy Read More …
I’ve posted talks by Clay Shirky before. This one is from TED a while back but seems somehow more relevant now than it might have been a few years ago. His ideas about collaberation seem to chime with my own thinking about the church as an institution and the problem it faces. The church is Read More …
In a comment the other day Leo mentioned this poem by Kipling (not the cake guy, the other one). The Sons of Martha Rudyard Kipling 1907 The sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. Read More …
It’s the school holidays in our part of the world and for some Indiana Jones related culture we visited The Burrell Collection in Glasgow to look at the excellent collections from Egypt, Rome, Greece and Asia. One thing that struck me was this: The statue shows Mary Magdalene with the jar of perfume that she Read More …