February 2011
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Watch“The Beatles did not invent teenagers. They merely decided to lead them. Most movements, most leadership that we’re doing is about finding a group that’s disconnected but already has a yearning, not persuading people to want something they don’t have yet.”
—Seth Godin, The Tribes We Lead, TED, February 2009.
Great talk on how, in the internet age, building a...
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"What Would Jesus Cut?" The Budget as a Moral...
Yesterday morning I got an email from Sojourners, one of my favorite progressive Christian organizations, asking for a donation to help deliver “What Would Jesus Cut?” bracelets to every member of Congress. The message? “To challenge elected officials and the administration to remember their moral priorities when they vote on the budget.”
From a communications standpoint, I really like how...
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“Humiliation is the single most powerful human emotion, and overcoming it is the...”
– —Thomas Friedman, Out of Touch, Out of Time, New York Times, Feb. 10, 2011.
I’m not entirely sure Friedman is right on this one, but humiliation certainly counts as one of the more powerful human motivators—a lesson American foreign policy makers would do well to remember, especially in...
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On Vocation—Jesus Was a Carpenter First
During this season of Epiphany we celebrate the manifestation of Christ on Earth, and in particular the visit of the foreign Magi with their three—mostly impractical—gifts to the infant Jesus. Also during this time, Eastern churches celebrate Jesus’ baptism. Both of these moments mark the manifestation, or “epiphany,” of the second person of the Trinity as a human being in Jesus Christ.
But...
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The Limits of Science
I’m not one of those Christians who condemns evolution, or thinks that God put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith—I don’t think humans ever ran screaming from a T-Rex. However, I think it’s important to consider the limits to the kind of knowledge we get from various ways of knowing, including science.
Take, for instance, the edges of our universe....