Summer Beach Reads
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Women in Leadership II: A Mentee’s Perspective
Last month, I received a reply to my earlier post on Women in Leadership. Among many important points she raised, this blogger identified that a core problem for professional female ministers is the fact that there are so few available mentors for … Continue reading Women in Leadership II: A Mentee’s Perspective
Grit
Last weekend, I celebrated two graduations. Our college, Horizon, hosted graduation in our 80th year, while elsewhere my wife, after having two kids and moving between three provinces and across the Atlantic, convocated for her Master’s degree. I am super … Continue reading Grit
4 minutes on forgiveness
This Easter, I participated in a Good Friday service where seven of us preached for four minutes each on one of Jesus’ “seven sayings of the cross.” My message was on the first saying: “Father, forgive them, for they … Continue reading 4 minutes on forgiveness
An Advent Reflection
(A little Christmas diversion from my series on leadership resources.) Last weekend initiated the season when we are officially to begin anticipating Christmas. You know what season I mean. Even if it’s not marked on your calendar, I’m sure you saw it … Continue reading An Advent Reflection
Favourite Leadership Resource #2: Good to Great
My favourite Christmas film is The Sound of Music. To this day, simple, everyday statements like “so long” or “favourite things” starts Julie Andrews singing in my head. When I think of where I started my reading in leadership, I’m therefore comforted to hear Julie … Continue reading Favourite Leadership Resource #2: Good to Great
Favourite Leadership Resource #1: Start with Why
I mentioned last post that over the next few weeks I’ll blog on some of the resources I’ve found most influential on my recent journey into leadership. My criteria in selecting these particular resources is not only that they’re good, but that I implemented them immediately. … Continue reading Favourite Leadership Resource #1: Start with Why
Varied Terrain: My Unexpected Journey into Leadership
This summer I returned to my roots and went backcountry backpacking in the Canadian Rockies. The trip lasted three days and covered about 60 km and 3,000 feet of elevation. (I wore Vibram Spyridon LS, incidentally. I may review the shoes in a future post…) Although I grew up playing in the Rockies, it still amazes me how incredibly and unpredictably varied is mountain terrain. Over 60 km, we travelled through trees and fields and rock slides. We marched over trickling, mountain streams and by (and into!) clear, glacial lakes; down winding ravines and up to rock-spewing waterfalls; through wet, … Continue reading Varied Terrain: My Unexpected Journey into Leadership
Women in Leadership
I haven’t had time to blog recently. It’s been a hectic few weeks with our graduation, a major alumni event (200 people), banquet planning for our upcoming banquets this Saturday in Winnipeg (http://horizon.celect.org/winnipeg-banquet) and next Thursday in Saskatoon (http://horizon.celect.org/saskatoon-banquet), planning and reporting for May Board of Governor meetings next week, and attending two major conferences: the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada General Conference in Saskatoon at the end of April, and a Competency Based Education conference, from which I’m writing this blog now in San Antonio. Me in San Antonio at the CBE Conference, hanging with the Mariachi band. The Competency … Continue reading Women in Leadership
The Tomb and Wife of Jesus: Handling Sensationalist Claims that Crop Up around Easter
My doctoral supervisor at Edinburgh, Prof. Larry Hurtado, would remark that sensationalist archaeological discoveries about Jesus frequently become public just in time for Easter. His point: Easter is the most profitable time to sell headlines and promote documentaries, books, and other media related to Jesus. Often, the “discoveries” are presented in ways sensationally to undercut orthodox Christianity, Da Vinci Code style. So the publication of the Gospel of Judas in 2006 came with the fanfare of having discovered the lost, real story of Jesus’s betrayal, complete with a National Geographic documentary. The Talpiot tomb came to public attention (again!) in … Continue reading The Tomb and Wife of Jesus: Handling Sensationalist Claims that Crop Up around Easter
