Note: This paper was originally delivered at the 2012 Society of Vineyard Scholars in Minneapolis, MN. Jonathan Edwards placed the blame for Satan’s victory in the First Great Awakening on the failure of the stage-theory used by the pastors of…
Understanding your own underlying connection strategies can make or break survival in a dysfunctional working environment by Todd W. Hall, PhD Recently, I met with a manager I’ve been working with who is working in a very dysfunctional system. Two…
From Image Journal The Myth of Independent Film By Craig Detweiler It started with a phone call. “Sweet D, I’m coming to California. I want to interview you for my new book.” Nobody ever called me “Sweet” except my…
Moving the Nonprofit Leader from Surviving to Thriving Michael Hartsfield, Ph.D. in Christian Leadership Alliance A headline in the The Chronicle of Philanthropy proclaims, “Many Nonprofit Leaders Don’t Ever Want the Top Job Again, Survey Finds.” Most of the 1,000 nonprofit executives…
Why the day my wife announced that she wanted to leave became the best day of my life.
A Bridge Too Far Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great…
As I’ve noted in Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God, the leaders of America’s First Great Awakening recognized that societal transformation was every bit as much a media revolution as it was a spiritual movement. No one represented this approach…
Love Wins: The Controversy That Keeps On Giving It’s not every day that a pastor makes the cover story of Time Magazine. Rick Warren did it as recently as 2008, as did T.D. Jakes (2001), and Jerry Falwell (1985). Billy Graham (1954,…
I’ve read a lot of great responses regarding what the Rob Bell controversy teaches us about the current state of “Christian-Christian” relationships in America. None is better than this post by one of my favorite former students, 20-something blogger, and…
Throughout American history our colleges have been repeatedly blessed and transformed by intense seasons of spiritual awakening.
Directing artists requires a unique approach to leadership, whether it’s musicians, or designers, or writers, or entertainers, or worship leaders, or those who sketch/paint/draw.