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Blogging the Leadership Summit
Thursday, August 14th, 2008I couldn’t attend any of the WCA Leadership Summit this year, but blogs from Chris Brooks helped capture the context. CB on: + Wendy Kopp The reality is that there are really 2 different public education systems in America. The first is well funded, has excellent teachers, staff, and administration. This system usually has strong [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008- First, a preview of this weekend’s Everything Must Change event with Brian McLaren. Brian Mclaren at Shift ’08 Brian closed by encouraging the audience to see the Kingdom of God as having everything to do with how we tackle our world’s biggest problems: prosperity, equity, security, and religion. While salvation matters, Brian is concerned [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Kara Powell at Shift ’08 Powell stood next to a table piled high with ministry books and resources. She asked, with so many resources available to us why are our students falling away at such alarming rates? Her thought: the more resources we have the less desperate and dependent upon God we feel. And we [...]
Larger than Life
Friday, March 9th, 2007Efrem Smith on the medium-size (ha!) screen at Shift 2007. More Shift pictures here.
“God is in the slums, where the poor play house”
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007On March 2, Bono opened for me at Shift. Seriously. A ten-minute version of this talk he gave last year at the Leadership Summit set up “Full Contact Faith.” Later that night, Bono accepted the NAACP Chairman’s Award. Here’s what he said to the NAACP. If you’re interested in receiving a FREE copy of the [...]
Finally Here
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007At Shift. Blogging here for a few days.
Activists
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Yesterday, my mother found an old flier from 1997 that represents my initiation to full contact faith and activism that restores justice. While the flier is busy and brash and reflects the idealism of a 22-year-old law student, the story behind the flier introduced me to the kind of activism we’ll be discussing at Shift [...]