Being a great woman leader doesn’t have to mean suppressing your gender Part 6 in series: Women of Faith in Leadership by Margaret Feinberg Over the years I have met many fantastic women leaders. I lean forward to hear their every word…
What Will Survive of Us Is Love: Helen Dunmore’s 9 Rules of Writing, by Maria Popova
“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.” …
René Girard: The Greatest Christian Intellectual You Never Heard of, by Cynthia Haven
“People are against my theory, because it is at the same time avant-garde and Christian: the avant-garde people are anti-Christian, and many of the Christians are anti-avant-garde.” -René Girard
Two Handed Warriors Named to CT’s ’50 Women You Should Know’
Part One in Series “Women of Faith in Leadership” Posted by Gary David Stratton, Senior Editor Congratulations to Two Handed Warrior contributors Margaret Feinberg and Rachel Held Evans for their inclusion in Christianity Today’s “50 Women You Should Know” (below).…
How to Write Everyday Without Missing Your Life, by Genevieve Parker Hill
“The earlier in the day I write, the more likely I am to: a) write that day, and b) write more that day.” …………………………….-Genevieve Parker Hill by Author and World Traveler, Genevieve Parker Hill I’m deep in the thickets of drafting my…
Pistols at Dawn: Five Steps for Discussing Doctrine Amicably
A few precautions can keep a friendly debate from becoming an ungodly bloodbath by Clint Archer of TheCrippleGate.com A seminary cafeteria (or a church coffee bar) can be a veritable gunslinger’s saloon of theological repartee. Quick minds, earnest souls, armed to the teeth…
Hilarious Video: Theologian N.T. Wright sings “Genesis” to Tune of The Beatles’ “Yesterday” (I kid you not!)
Theologian N.T. Wright sings song he and scientist Francis Collins collaborated on at Rabbit Room. Click here if video is not visible.
Leading in a Dysfunctional System 3: Move Toward Your Strengths
Instead of allowing yourself to be pulled by the uncoordinated demands of a dysfunctional system, you need to push, gradually and incrementally, toward your strengths. Part 3 in series: Leading in a Dysfunctional System. by Todd W. Hall, PhD This is…
The Lord’s Prayer as a Paradigm of Christian Prayer, by N.T. Wright
The Lord’s Prayer is not so much a command as an invitation: an invitation to share in the prayer-life of Jesus himself. by N.T. Wright “AS OUR SAVIOR CHRIST hath commanded and taught us, we are bold to say: ‘Our…
Writing edgy . . . for all the wrong reasons, by C.J. Darlington
Am I ashamed of the gospel? A Conversation with Randy Elrod’s: Why Christians Are Creating More “Edgy” Art, and Jeff Goin’s, Are Christians Writing “Edgy” for the Wrong Reasons? by CJ Darlington In the last couple of years I’ve noticed a trend…
Friday VIDEO: J. K. Rowling’s at Harvard Commencement Address
J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via harvardmagazine.com). . J.K. Rowling Speaks at…
Are Christians Writing “Edgy” for the Wrong Reasons? by Jeff Goins
Good art tests boundaries. It always has. We artists just need to check our motives (and egos) before we endeavor to create it. A Conversation with Randy Elrod’s: Why Christians Are Creating More “Edgy” Art, and C.J. Darlington’s, “Writing edgy… for all…