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.
Leading Artists and Musicians, in @CatalystLeader
Teen Role Models: Who They Are, Why They Matter, by David Kinnaman
Part of ongoing series: Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God: Servant Leadership in an Age of Self-Promotion. (Note please pray for David, Dan Allender and I as we speak to the National Student Leaders Network in Orlando later this…
Pseudo Servant Leadership and Pseudo Celebrity: Manipulating the Paradox of Power
There is something in the very nature of leadership that implies service. True leaders, those who people follow because they want to not because they have to, always begin with and return to the needs of their followers.
LOST: Servant Leadership in Jack’s “Live Together or Die Alone” Speech
Short clip of Jack’s pivotal speech to the survivor’s of Oceanic flight 815.
Tuesdays with Tozer / Wednesdays with Walter, by Margaret Feinberg
Margaret Feinberg has written more than two dozen books including the critically-acclaimed The Organic God, The Sacred Echo, Scouting the Divine.
Two Handed Warrior Books of the Decade, by Gary & Sue Stratton
Sue and I put our heads together over dinner at Outback last night and came up with our own twenty (popular) books on the two themes of Two Handed Warriors—Culture Making and Faith Building.
Ten Most Beautiful Books I Read During the Last Decade, by Margaret Feinberg
Margaret Feinberg, prolific author whose books include Scouting the Divine and the critically-acclaimed The Organic God offers her top ten books of the past decade.
Top Posts of the Year: Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God
Responses to THW’s #2 Blog Post of the Year–Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God–revealed the depth of angst out there balance the desire to maximize the potentialities of the electronic age without being drawn into the “dark side” of self-promotion.
Top Blog Posts of 2010: Casablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview
Most popular Blog Post of the Year–Casablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview: Why Everyone Meets at Rick’s–evoked a solid conversation with screenwriting experts, Jim Hull, Key Payton, and Stanley D. Williams. it was fascinating to see how concepts that my worldview students found helpful really did apply to real live screenwriters.
The Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais’ Atheism and Sentimental Hogwash: It’s a Wonderful Life, Part 1
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais’s Atheism joke and recent essay in the Wall Street Journal “Why I’m An Atheist,” provide a great background for examining an all-time great Christmas movie and one of the best defenses of Theism in Hollywood history–It’s a Wonderful Life.
The Paradox of Power: A Cure for the Cancer of Pseudo Celebrity?
True leaders, those who people follow because they want to not because they have to, always begin with and return to the needs of their followers.
Icons of Heroic Celebrity: Thoughts on Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God, by TV Writer Chris Easterly
It’s easier (and more pleasant) to absorb the latest tabloid headline about Kim Kardashian’s sex life than it is to consider a story about Saddleback pastor Rick Warren’s efforts to fight AIDS in Africa. -Chris Easterly, Television Writer