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8 Keys to engaging pre-teens in church
I wrote a while ago about engaging children in church. Now I’m tackling that in-between age: the pre-teen. First off, I don’t intend to give a firm age range for this group. I think you know it when you see it. Your 9 year-old might be more teen-like than your 11 year-old. Parents of pre-teens struggle with…
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On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy
In the Premodern world, humanity was led by “the divine right of kings,” in other words, authority was bestowed upon a singular human authority from a divine source. In the Modern world, humanity was led by singular representation. Authority was bestowed on an individual to represent the people, either through fiat or election. The Enlightenment…
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Too polished
As I wrote yesterday, I participated in an online conference called The Nines, put on by the Leadership Network. The conference was free and open to anybody. I was relatively pleased with it, and given a different set of circumstances, I would no doubt have made more of an effort to watch all nine hours.…
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Are you a part of the Nines?
The Nines is an annual online conference set up by the Leadership Network. It is free and open to the public. So, unless you’re gone all day, it is worth it! It is tomorrow at 10 am. I missed out last year and have to leave the computer to take my daughter to art class, but…
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Missed communication in misbehavior
Parents struggle from the moment their babies are born to understand them. We listen intently to hear the different cries–the I’m-hungry cry; the I-want-you-to-hold-me cry; the I-refuse-to-admit-I’m-tired cry; and the far too common I-just-want-my-way cry. The discerning parent learns to tell the difference in these cries. Each has a differed tone and different facial expressions.…
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Power to the People (Women’s Rights Remix)
Power to the People “Turn it up! Turn it up! Power to the people, y’all!” –Public Enemy, Power to the People By now you have heard of the class-action suit against Wal-Mart and this week’s decision by the Supreme Court to throw out the case. The case made news in two very important ways. First,…
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changing my name
Maybe I shouldn’t, but I just did. I changed the name of this blog. Same address, new name. The Original Name When I first started blogging with WordPress, I began with a simple notion: that our approach as the church in planning for the future was MAD (mutually-assured destruction). My argument (which I still believe)…
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In abuse, sex is the weapon, power is the cause
The sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church has caused a great deal of speculation and fighting–ideological, political, theological–and all (theoretically) for the betterment of the church. A new study, which I expect to do little to squash the fighting and speculating, attempts to make good PR for the Roman church by countering the…