“Hard lessons from Mars Hill”
Via CT:
The whole corporate model for managing a church has infiltrated and affected the church more than anybody realizes.
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“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all”
—Peter Drucker
“this is a gospel issue because we’re all created in the image of God and redeemed equally”
Christian leaders speak out about Eric Garner, race, and reconciliation.
Christmas carols with Olivia, age 8
♫ Every bloody nose, a turkey, and some mistletoe ♫ Help to make the season bright ♫
“App’ing interpersonal relationships”
Apps that “maximize romantic connection through seamless relationship outsourcing.”
“Introducing a phone-shaped block that does nothing”
“Suffering, joy, life, and death”
Don’t accept [the] premise that choices about life and death should be based on the presence or absence of suffering.
“Understanding the new sexual morality is necessary to effectively and winsomely counter it”
“Losing Iraq”
Sobering documentary reporting.
”You may have forgotten, but an entire generation exists in between the Baby Boomers and Millennials”
Gen X is aptly named.
“The most debilitating form of clutter is organisational complexity”
What Facebook makes us
Facebook doesn’t make us better people. It only makes us more efficient — for doing things that Facebook invented.
“Reading is a bridge to thought”
“There’s no difference between a brand and your best friend”
Exceptional Frontline documentary, Generation Like. (And a kind of “spiritual successor” to Merchants of Cool documentary from circa 2000.) Highly recommended.
“the biggest deal in sports licensing history”
And, no, it’s not LeBron.