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May 7, 2013

Creating institutional balance, playfulness and harmony

The ancient art form of rock balancing offers Christian leaders lessons on patience, creativity, attention to detail and joy.

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May 7, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • More than the Christian right
  • Faith & work
  • State funds for Princeton TS?
  • Ex-UMC pastor opens beach bar church
  • Religion & end-of-life care
  • Thank you for not sharing
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May 6, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • How do we share a world?
  • Fundraising myths
  • I want to be a burden
  • Improbable cowboy pastor
  • Religious speech / hate speech
  • Wild kingdom
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May 3, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • PK stress
  • Kierkegaard still matters
  • Rancher on religion & animal rights
  • Hollywood goes biblical
  • Nones & prayer
  • Cure for distractions
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May 2, 2013

How to measure success

Some of the traditional markers don’t work anymore. But every institution needs to define what short-term and long-term success looks like.

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May 2, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • National Day of Prayer
  • Dismal parting at DC church
  • Pay heed to visionaries
  • First Protestant pope?
  • Why so little servant leadership?
  • How to be a better friend
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May 1, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Pew Muslim report
  • Where eurekas come from
  • Britons trust Google
  • Prayers that stay with us
  • Too old to be an elder?
  • Gap year volunteering
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April 30, 2013

How to navigate institutional decline

What makes the difference between a forest that declines then renews and one that declines and dies? The planned burn.

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April 30, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Pope to young: Swim against the tide
  • Confessional revival
  • Baseball & religion
  • Physics & God
  • No rich child left behind
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April 29, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Church stabbing in N.M.
  • Orthodoxy winning?
  • George Jones: Bible-belt troubadour
  • Signs of belief gone evil
  • Too old to be clergy?
  • Didn't you get tested?
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April 26, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Faith at the finish line
  • Trinity Wall Street's $2 billion
  • Translator of Biblical proportion
  • Catholic evangelism
  • Young Christians: legalize pot
  • Pay attention
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April 25, 2013

Overinvesting in the young

How can you include young people in all of the life-giving dimensions of your community?

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April 25, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Keller Q&A on work
  • Religion & violence
  • Politics of making saints
  • Who volunteers the most?
  • The original hipster
  • Flintstone brake analysis
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April 24, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Isolation the new normal
  • Rev. Bob Edgar, RIP
  • Anti-terror asset: Muslim Americans
  • Malick’s mystical lens
  • Culture of gratitude
  • Therapy in the golden years
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April 23, 2013

Blessing at work

Do we have a deep sense of blessing in our vocational lives? How might Christian leaders bring blessings to our communities?

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