musings on leadership in ministry
Earlier in the week I attended an event called ‘Faith in Recovery’. The morning was a step towards better spiritual care for people with mental ill health by health services working in partnership with faith communities. Last week 11 faith communities in Lanarkshire signed the See Me pledge to work towards ending the stigma around Read More …
Since my design thinking epiphany the other day I’ve been looking around for more information on what it is and how it works. I thought posting some links might help me remember where I found things and help you explore this a bit further. Design Thinking on Wikipedia d.school @ stanford university has some great Read More …
Anyone who knows me will not be surprised by the heading of this post. I’m good at finding problems! But Problem Finding isn’t about complaining. Ewan McIntosh spoke at TEDx London in September about re-framing the way learners engage with problems. Currently, the world’s education systems are crazy about problem-based learning, but they’re obsessed with Read More …
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. – John Bingham Bingham was Read More …
Yesterday I wrote about running alone and how parkrun might give people like the chance to ‘run alone together’ (as Leo said in his comment). John Orr took the thought and expanded it to church. I like when that happens. His question was ‘How can we create opportunities for people to join in without having Read More …
OneKirk conference What are the issues facing the church today? What kind of church are we? What kind of church do we seek to build? OneKirk is hosting a conference that offers a space for open and honest discussion about these questions for everyone in the church. What kind of church? Speaker: Rev Peter Read More …
“We tried that once. It didn’t work” Imagine a golfer saying that. “Yeah, I picked up a club once when I was 7 and had a swing but the ball only went 10 feet off to the right so I never bothered trying again.” What nonsense. To get something right takes practice. Apparently 10,000 hours Read More …