Leadership Quality – Seeing the Bigger Picture…
Taken from a blog called The Happy Manager
Which leadership quality would be at the top of your list? Many might say the ability to see the bigger picture – and rightly so...
The curse of resentment
Life is very, very short. Further, one’s perspective is limited and the ability to see one’s own life in a manner where one can hold all of the hurts and arrows that one has endured and understand that experience in a global context is impossible. Thus the expression “first world problems” exists. Obviously people who are survivors of abuse...
Rough Side of the Mountain
Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell the story of this mountaintop encounter, what we commonly call “the Transfiguration Sunday”. Over the years most of the sermons I have read, heard or preached on the Transfiguration have taken one of two tacks. One has been a focus on the glorification of Jesus as he becomes dazzlingly radiant before Peter, James and John...
Wisdom
Thomas Berry 101
minimalism
Asking the sick to be positive isn't always a comfort
The Good-Enough Life
Respect the Penny
Judgment
Ministry as difficult as it ought to be
My 5 All-Time Favorite Movies
Lament for a Son
Hiking around the Land of Laziness Lake
Tips for Talking with Someone Who is Dying
The Organic Gift
The Upside Down Kingdom
I have been very blessed. I have enjoyed good health, good relationships with family and friends, had secure employment for close to 30 years, been supported by a wife and daughter who love me and suffered very few setbacks, failures and losses in my life. Yet in the close to 30 years I have served as an ordained minister I have become known as someone who...
Ignoring Your Email is Rude
Rev Billy and the Non Shopping Choir
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping is a radical performance community based in New York City. The Stop Shopping Choir is accompanied by a comic preacher, Reverend Billy, portrayed by performer William (Billy) Talen. The philosophy of the Church of Stop Shopping surrounds the imminent "Shopocalypse", which assumes the end of humanity will come about through manic consumerism...