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Stats Lie Pt 3: ….Except For When They Don’t

March 26, 2012
This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Stats Lie

I titled this series “Stats Lie.”  And they do sometimes. But sometimes they don’t!  Sometimes we do. But sometimes measurements are so clear and so powerfully self-evident that there’s not a whole lot that people can do to skew them. And there’s a whole lot of measurements we better pay attention to! Say your blood [...]

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Quick Review: The Bible Made Impossible

March 23, 2012

I’m taking a quick break from the blog series I’m doing right now called “Stats Lie” to do a quick review on a book I just finished – Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible:  Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. I had been wanting to read this for about a year [...]

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Stats Lie Pt 2: Tunnel Vision

March 21, 2012
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Stats Lie

In the last post I started a series called “Stats Lie.”  That post was focused on stats and partial truths.  This post will explore the relationship between stats and tunnel vision. As mentioned previously, this is not a series against statistics or measurements, but about our relationship to and how we access the truth of [...]

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Stats Lie Pt 1: Partial Truths

March 18, 2012
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Stats Lie

C.S. Lewis wrote in his Reflections on the Psalms, “Almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough.” Part of our humanity is that we’re constant interpreters. And we’re not just interpreters of books like in the quote above, but we’re interpreters of just about everything….including numbers. A long time friend [...]

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Coach Mike Ditka on Encouraging

March 16, 2012

One of my all time favorite quotes on encouraging people in the context of mission and balancing the tension between support and challenge. “If you want to get the most of out of your people you can’t beat ‘em down without picking them up. It’s okay if you beat ‘em down once in a while, [...]

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Ethnic General and Specific Ministry Video

March 14, 2012

Loved this video on ethnic general and ethnic specific ministry produced by our friends in InterVarsity. Definitely worth the six minutes to watch. Ethnicity Matters from InterVarsity twentyonehundred on Vimeo.  

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Servanthood and Gifting (Guest Post)

March 11, 2012

I’m excited to introduce another servant leadership guest post.  This is from TJ Poon, an Epic Movement staff member based in Austin, Texas.  TJ has guest blogged here before (here) and is graciously giving me permission to post her thoughts here.  She also is a current participant in the Systems & Power Leadership Community!  She [...]

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Delegation versus Empowerment in Reproducing Leaders

March 9, 2012

The Epic Movement Resource Site just released a post today written by my dad Tom Virtue.   He wrote on empowerment and it’s worth checking out his thoughts on what empowerment is and is not, how it differs from delegation, and what leaders who aim to empower have to be willing to let go of. You [...]

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Yoda’s Advice to the Marginalized

March 7, 2012

So I’ve started watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars with my young son.  You never know when there’s going to be some good wisdom – and should we be surprised that Master Yoda drops some wisdom every once in a while? I think not. Here’s Yoda’s advice to the marginalized….. “To answer power with power, [...]

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