I really enjoyed this New York Times story about Gonzaga University basketball coach Mark Few. Few has had outrageous success at the Catholic school in Spokane, Washington, winning 80% of all games coached and a stunning 89% of conference games. Look for Gonzaga to be formidable in a few weeks, when March Madness tips off. What’s even [...]
Shaka Smart & How Athletic Coaching Is Like Pastoring
March 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Shaka Smart is the basketball coach of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond. For two years in a row, his teams have made it to the national tournament and overachieved. He’s coveted now by many larger schools who can pay him a great deal more money than VCU. But he just surprised the college basketball [...]
John Piper, Don Carson, and Transformed Pastors and Scholars
May 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There’s a great deal of interest right now in what some have called the pastor-theologian and theologian-pastor movement. John Piper and D. A. Carson are two of the more prominent faces of each of these enhanced ministerial vocations. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dustin Neeley of Church Planting for the Rest [...]
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