Culture

Because People Aren’t Transferable

September 15, 2011

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Future of Cru

This is post #1 in a short series on the future of Cru. I don’t aim to offer a thorough assessment of what the future holds for Cru, but I do aim to raise a few areas that require new thinking and change because frankly they’re holding us back. If you want some context or [...]

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What’s a Record?

August 23, 2011

Every once in a while you witness a moment that’s priceless and even more rare is capturing it with a picture. Here’s my dad trying to explain vinyl records to my daughter Morgan after Morgan saw a record and wondered what it was. She looked it for several minutes just confused.

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Why I Celebrated the 4th and Am Glad I Did

July 4, 2011

The fourth of July is fun. Since becoming a parent it’s become a fun holiday because there’s parades and fireworks and it’s fun family time. This year I found it interesting to consistently be seeing things from two extreme perspectives. One, being those that equate America as being a Christian nation and argue that everything [...]

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Those Who Make Them Become Like Them

June 17, 2011

One of my unique interests is observing the impact on organizations and systems upon personal and leadership formation. That’s a lot of fancy words for saying I pay a lot of attention to and I think a lot about what kind of impact the environments or cultures people are in have on those individual and [...]

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Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens

May 3, 2011

I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron Taffel. It’s directed to help professionals and counselors who are struggling to help and offer productive help for this millenial generation of teenagers. [...]

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Jumping the Line as a Moral Act

March 9, 2011

I read this recently from Seth Godin on innovation and the status quo… “Too often, we’re persuaded that initiative and innovation and bypassing the status quo is some sort of line jumping, a selfish gaming of the zero sum game. Most of the time it’s not. In fact, what you do when you solve an [...]

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Anxiety as Teacher

November 17, 2010

I’ve enjoyed some of the discussion that has stemmed from the post “Are You Better Off Being Cross-Culturally Clueless” and wanted to take it another step.Tom commented about how there is a inherent servanthood in entering into the anxiety that comes from being and living in a different world and different context. He made some [...]

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Missional Coaching (Article)

October 14, 2010

In the future I’ll be converting some resources or articles I’ve written and start to polish up and consolidate them on this site since most haven’t been in any accessible place up to this point.This is an article that I wrote I believe in 2005 for the purpose of helping train coaches of short-term mission [...]

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Leading Three Sheets to the Wind

September 11, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

I thought for the next installment of my unorganized series of posts that I could call “Leading on the Seas” that I would choose one of the more colorful terms in sailing lore – three sheets to the wind. I’ve been physically about 50% or less for the past 10 days so I’m excited to [...]

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