New Strategy for Women: Be Disruptive

Last updated on: January 12, 2013 at 11:12 am By Scot McKnight

By Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr: Academic institutions are churning out ever-more female graduates. But the very skills that propel women to the top of the class in school are earning us middle-of the-pack marks in the workplace. Indeed, a recent study found that women account for 51.4% of middle managers in the U.S. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO’s. Based on our experience, the CEO statistics will continue to improve, but only incrementally, until women recognize that the boardroom is... Read more

What’s So Hard about Grading?

Last updated on: January 11, 2013 at 7:53 pm By Scot McKnight

From John Tierney: Teachers: What’s the hardest element of grading for you? I know that some teachers actually enjoy grading. They say they find it interesting to see what their students have learned and how they’re doing. I admire that attitude. And it’s certainly true that there is the positive feeling that comes from the occasional observation of student improvement, from either increased effort or better understanding of the material. But apart from that, I was never able to get... Read more

Meaning in Pain Proves there’s a God (Jeff Cook)

Last updated on: January 13, 2013 at 4:35 pm By Scot McKnight

Meaning in Pain Proves There’s a God (Jeff Cook) Today we hit what I see as the second best reason to believe in a God, and as I outline in more detail in Everything New, this is the reason I not only believe in a God, but a very specific God. Anyone who thinks seriously about God has to think about the evil in our world—both the moral evils that some human beings inflict on others, and the natural evils that seem to... Read more

Louie Giglio and Inauguration Day Prayer

Last updated on: January 14, 2013 at 7:03 am By Scot McKnight

Louie Giglio did the right thing when he chose to back out of offering the Inauguration Day Prayer. He could have done the right-er thing by never accepting such an invitation. The story is that Louie was invited to pray at Inauguration Day — he represents young, conservative evangelicals and the drive by the same crowd to eliminate trafficking in the world. When some discovered who was invited to give the prayer they investigated his past, they discovered some traditional... Read more

Rural America: Numbered?

Last updated on: January 13, 2013 at 2:38 pm By Scot McKnight

From USAToday: What are you seeing? What are you hearing? WASHINGTON — When the top cheerleader for rural America has some harsh words for the people he represents, it might be time to take notice. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack delivered a dire warning to the 51 million farmers, ranchers and other residents inhabiting rural America before a farm group in Washington last month. His message: Rural Americans are becoming less relevant in the country’s increasingly urban landscape and unless they... Read more

NCYM 2013

Last updated on: January 13, 2013 at 3:39 pm By Scot McKnight

Last week I was invited to speak at the National Conference on Youth Ministries in Colorado Springs, under the aegis of Pike’s Peak. The list of topics discussed, classes held, and platform speaking was impressive, and I want to express my gratitude to Josh Jones and Josh Graves for the invitation, and it was great to spend time over lunch with one of my preaching heroes, Mike Cope, and then a splendid dinner with Chris Seidman. To top this off,... Read more

Stop Day

Last updated on: January 11, 2013 at 12:13 pm By Scot McKnight

From Matthew Sleeth, at CNN.com: CNN: You write about incorporating a “stop day” into your weekly schedule. How do you think that can extend and enrich your life? Sleeth: A “stop day” is a day you really cease from your labors. This really comes in Western cultures from the Ten Commandments. The fourth commandment tells us to remember the Sabbath. The word “Sabbath” simply means “to cease” — to cease from your labors. Now, the definition of labor has changed over... Read more

First Sunday after Epiphany

Last updated on: January 5, 2013 at 9:46 am By Scot McKnight

Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. Read more

My Favorite Sports Moment

Last updated on: January 8, 2013 at 1:09 pm By Scot McKnight

That’s a Serious Dust Storm

Last updated on: January 12, 2013 at 11:09 am By Scot McKnight

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