leadership

Anxiety & Monkey Poo

February 5, 2012

First, forgive me for this post.  I don’t know if it’s the effect of the Superbowl, the onslaught of random ads, or just a brief failure of self-regulation.  But consider yourself warned that this post is less than savory due to frequent references to feces – monkey poo in particular. I frequently post on themes [...]

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Stemming the Tide of Scapegoating Pt. 2

February 3, 2012

Since the Superbowl is almost here, I wanted to do one more post related to Scapegoating following the AFC and NFC Championship games two weeks ago.  My last post centered around the 49ers loss and the young player who made two crucial mistakes that contributed significantly to the loss.  I thought it was a great [...]

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Advent and the Anxious Leaders

December 22, 2011

To follow my advent related post this last week called “Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All”, I wanted to post another advent related reflection.  Much is made about Jesus coming as a baby, but less focus is given to what environment Jesus was born into as it relates to the political and religious [...]

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Self: The Most Pernicious Program of All

December 17, 2011

Here’s the second post of my re-release of this advent series.  This post was originally posted December 1st, 2010. ———————————– This is part two out of three of a mini-blog series on what I’m calling “collective fusion.”  This won’t make as much sense without part one so for part one click here. In part one [...]

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My Review on Junia Is Not Alone

December 9, 2011

As I was wrapping up Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel, which you can see my thoughts on here, McKnight released a short e-book entitled Junia Is Not Alone.  I bought it immediately – because of my familiarity with Junia and my curiosity about the connections McKnight would make between her and female in ministry throughout [...]

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Anxiety in Systems

November 22, 2011

I’ve been out of commission for a while which I’ll let you in on soon, but figured it would be good to re-post an early blog from back in the day when no one was reading   So here’s a post from 4 years ago (Sept 2007) on anxiety in systems, which I’ve been thinking [...]

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Is Pain the Key to Empowerment?

November 2, 2011

It’s timely to re-post today one of the most popular posts ever on my blog, or top 10 at least.  Morgan’s got another jog-a-thon in the morning (Thursday) and it brings back a lot of memories documented here.  She’s still nervous about it, because like one of her parents she takes everything super seriously   [...]

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Embracing the NO’s to Sex: Putting On The Big Boy Pants

October 16, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Why I Love It When My Wife Says NO to Sex

Putting On the Big Boy Pants Encountering limits and experiencing boundaries are reality checks.  We need limits as they remind us that our reality is in fact bigger than just ourselves. While it might be a rude awakening if a particular spouse is in the mood and starting to put the moves on and they [...]

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Why I Like It When My Wife Says No to Sex Part 2: Turning the Tables

October 15, 2011
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Why I Love It When My Wife Says NO to Sex

This is the second post as continue this unusual series on “Why I Like It When My Wife Says No to Sex.”  You can check out the first post, which contains the context of this series, here. Turning the Tables: Patriarchy and Sex Advice If I can be honest here, I’m a night owl. So [...]

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