Scott Rands
May I share an incredible resource, offered by three thoughtful leaders
For more on this series of videos offering assistance with starting a “mission-oriented young adult group in your church”, follow this link: http://www.ecsefl.org/online-workshops/dec1-lecture/index.php
A new missional strategy: kindness!
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the […]
Reverend Chris Carlisle joins us for our May 3rd online gathering!
The Reverend Christopher Carlisle devoted twenty-six of his thirty-one years of priesthood as the Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Massachusetts, concluding his tenure as Director of Ministry to Higher Education for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. Beyond the alternative worship that marked life at the chaplaincy, a diversity of out-of-the-box experiences were regularly offered, including: the […]
Yearning for the vast and endless sea
One morning, not long ago, I awoke from a vivid dream that has really stayed with me. The day before, several of us were exploring that Antoine St Exupery quote that says, “”If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach […]
What if Ken Wilber is right
In his backbreaking effort at naming a “startling new role for religion in the Modern and Postmodern world,” Ken Wilber makes some audacious claims that I believe need to be at the heart of any discussion of new ministries in American Christianity. Ken is, by all accounts, a social scientist with a prophet’s sensibilities. In his […]
For Leaders (by John O’Donohue)
May you have the grace and wisdom to act kindly,learning to distinguish betweenwhat is personal and what is not.May you be hospitable to criticism.May you never put yourself at the center of things.May you act not from arrogance but out of service. May you work on yourself, building up and refining the ways of your […]
A CHICKEN’S FATE (from Orbiting the Giant Hairball, by Gordon MacKenzie)
My father spent the summer of 1904 on the farm of an aunt and uncle who lived a stone’s throw northeast of Lucknow in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. It so happened that the aunt and uncle had a son the same age as my father. Story has it that when the two boys were together, […]