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« Previous EntriesBlogging 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 athletics, a plethora [...]
Bill Hybels: The only sure way to spiritual maturity is exercising spiritual disciplines
Friday, May 9th, 2008Scores of NYC pastors heard the pastor of America’s “Most Influential Church” confess his surprise to this finding from the Reveal study, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2007 and encompassed 20,000 church goers from dozens of congregations. Here are my notes from one of Bill Hybels’ New York City Leadership Center’s [...]
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 that the [...]
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 begin [...]
Willow Creek Embraces the Mess
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The latest issue of Willow magazine, published by Willow Creek Association, features my article “Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now.”
Here’s an excerpt.
It felt like a mutiny.
As an official youth group, we were still young — not yet two years old — and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were new [...]
Colin Powell: WCA Leadership Summit
Monday, August 13th, 2007Leading at the Highest Level
Friday, Aug 10, 2007: Session 6
+ Colin Powell, C-student from the Bronx and City College (CUNY) graduate
+ Secretary of State
+ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
+ National Security Advisor
+ Session Webpage
Colin Powell’s story is the ultimate city-kid-makes-good tale of perseverance, courage, and leadership. As a fellow New Yorker with [...]
Courageous Leadership Award: WCA Leadership Summit
Monday, August 13th, 2007At last year’s Summit, Bill Hybels and Richard Stearns of World Vision announced the “Courageous Leadership Award,” a $100,000 cash grant to a church whose innovative response to the global AIDS pandemic would serve as a model for churches around the world. True to their word, they presented three finalists and announced the winner [...]
Michael Porter: WCA Leadership Summit
Monday, August 13th, 2007Strategy and Leadership
Friday, Aug 10, 2007: Session 5
Michael Porter, Professor, Harvard Business School
Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
Founder & President, Inst. for a Competitive Inner City
Session 5 Webpage
Session Powerpoint Slides (PDF)
I was first exposed to Michael Porter’s theories of competitive advantage during grad school, during [...]
WCA Leadership Summit
Monday, August 13th, 2007I could only attend parts of this year’s Willow Creek Leadership Summit, at two different satellite locations in two different cities. In all, I saw Bill Hybels’ “Tough Choices” interview with Carly Fiorina at Grace Church in Baltimore, and Michael Porter and Colin Powell’s sessions at Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn.
I was [...]
Catching my breath
Monday, March 5th, 2007After this …
I needed this …
Much appreciation and love to the Brooks family, Chris and his Queen and the heirs to her throne — Selah and Gabriel — for graciously returning me to earth Saturday night. (For those of you who’ve never experienced being serenaded by the Brooks kids, get in [...]
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 [...]
From the Fellowship Hall to Full Contact Faith
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Session 5
Friday, March 2, 20079 - 10:30 a.m.
From the Fellowship Hall to Full Contact Faith: Description
Today’s youth are activists. They’re aware of social justice issues. They’re passionate and idealistic. A growing number of Christian students are less interested in simply going to church than they are in being the church. Instead of just talking about [...]
Shift Happens
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Join Donald Miller, Efrem Smith, Greg Stier, Judah Smith, me and thousands of others at Shift, Willowcreek’s upcoming student ministries conference, February 28-March 2, 2007. Register today!
Willowcreek, Part 4
Friday, August 11th, 2006Hybels’ response to Bono: An appeal re. AIDS
The church cannot sit idly by and rationalize nonengagement to the global AIDS pandemic. Every church MUST do something. We will give an account for how we respond to AIDS. What can a church do?
1. Educate selves. Creates urgency.
2. Engage in the efforts [...]