Category: Leadership

Change, Conflict, Leadership

Some pondering on leadership, or the lack thereof (thoughts from a baseball fan)

I have not mentioned much on this blog that I am a sports fan.  Particularly, I am a Seattle sports fan and my first sports love has always been baseball.  I fell in love with the game when I was watching the Seattle Mariners seemingly come from nowhere to make it into the playoffs in the memorable run of 1995.  Well, its been a period … Continue reading Some pondering on leadership, or the lack thereof (thoughts from a baseball fan)

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Change, Church, Conflict, Cross Sector Collaboration, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Social Sector, Theology, Worship

This Week’s Links

It is Tuesday, so by now you know what that means.  It’s time for the weekly offering of links to stories and things I found interesting this past week and think you might enjoy or find helpful too. So without further adieu, here are this week’s links. The categories are as follows in alphabetical order:  Church Stuff, Cross Sector Collaboration, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Social Media, … Continue reading This Week’s Links

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Church, Cross Sector Collaboration, Leadership, Missional Church, Neighbor Love, Nonprofits, Social Sector, Theology, Vocation

This Week’s Links

Happy October!  For those of you in the United States, however, it might not be so happy as the government has shut down as of midnight.  As you might guess there will be some leadership and theological reflections offered as links in the following.  As always, Tuesday brings a host of links which I offer as hopefully good reads that you might find interesting and … Continue reading This Week’s Links

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Change, Church, Conflict, Cross Sector Collaboration, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Social Sector, Stewardship, Theology, Vocation

Neighbor love in light of the past week’s events

I enter into this post, deeply aware of how divisive this might be.  I shake a little at the thought of this, but deep down I know I must write.  A week and a half ago, perhaps more than at any other time in recent years, I felt convicted (and really, I still do given our current potential for a government shut-down)!  I feel convicted … Continue reading Neighbor love in light of the past week’s events

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Church, Cross Sector Collaboration, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Nonprofits, Social Sector, Theology, Vocation

This Week’s Links

It’s that time again.  Time to share some stuff I have read over the past week that I think you might enjoy.  This week I offer them under the headers of leadership and collaboration, church, neighbor love, stewardship, community, and vocation. Leadership and Collaboration Dan offers a great reminder of some of Peter Drucker’s thoughts on treating employees like volunteers.  It’s great advice and worth … Continue reading This Week’s Links

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Church, Leadership, Social Sector, Vocation, Worship

This Week’s Links

It’s that time of the week.  Time to offer some links to articles and things which I have found particularly interesting and thought provoking.  As always, I entrust them to you and hope you find them equally interesting and insightful. Leadership First of all, if you have not heard of Otto Scharmer before, allow me to introduce you to him and his fantastic blog!  Scharmer is the author … Continue reading This Week’s Links

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Church, Leadership, Nonprofits, Social Sector, Vocation

Lessons from Choir Directing about Volunteer Management

As some of you may know, one of my current roles involves me leading and directing a church choir.  As its a church choir, this means that this is a group of people who give up an hour or so every week to rehearse on a weekday evening, and who volunteer to help lead worship a couple times a month. Since I have served in … Continue reading Lessons from Choir Directing about Volunteer Management

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Church, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Social Sector, Theology, Vocation

This Week’s Links

There has been a lot of interesting stuff written and published in the past couple of weeks.  These all deserve their own post by me, but for the sake of time and in an effort to share this good stuff, I entrust these links to you for your reading and hopefully thought provoking pleasure. Leadership If you are like me, and you are always looking … Continue reading This Week’s Links

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Change, Church, Leadership, Neighbor Love, Stewardship, Theology, Vocation, Worship

Guest Post- Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly

In my posts yesterday I hinted that there would be upcoming posts about recent changes in the ELCA (the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). Today, I offer a guest post sharing some reflections from my brother Thomas who was a voting member at the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly on behalf of the Southwestern Washington Synod.  Thomas is in the midst of graduate studies in social work and … Continue reading Guest Post- Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly

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Change, Church, Cross Sector Collaboration, Daily Life, Leadership, Social Sector, Stewardship, Vocation, Worship

Summer Links

First of all, I hope you are all having the chance to watch and follow some of the speeches and ceremonies going on today honoring, remembering, and continuing in the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, today, 50 years later. King’s vision and dream continues I believe today, because the vision and mission with which it is grounded and speaks … Continue reading Summer Links

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