We do not change our minds. We adjust them. We only modify our thinking. Survival of the organism is priority over all others. The safety, protection and security of the brain is the primary operating principle. We like to think we are changing because this comforts our sensibilities that we ought to be. Whenever we receive any new piece of information, no matter how wonderful, we find ways to select the parts we want and reject the parts we don’t.... Read more
// I have assisted, or apprenticed, under different leaders, and some of the advice I have gotten has been incredible. This was one of the bits I received. I refused to comply. twitter me Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here. Read more
// twitter me My iPhone keeps surprising me with more amazing apps. This week, my newest and bestest discovery was the “Brushes” app I blogged about HERE. The cell that keeps on giving! Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here. Read more
No, this doesn’t happen all the time. But I have been in situations like this many times. Leadership lends itself to the adoration of leaders and to the trivialization of followers. Institutions and organizations and companies and communities abound with these kinds of stories. // twitter me Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here. Read more
Hey! I just came up with an idea: How about all churches commit to a one year moratorium on vision-casting, goal-setting, and mission statements? All the people I’ve talked with who are involved with these kinds of things admit, some to their shame, that they are completely useless undertakings anyway. Many I’ve talked to admit that once they come up with a firm vision statement, it is immediately made obsolete by some totally unforeseen issue or event or just the... Read more
// I’ve done lots of hiking and camping in my day, and it doesn’t matter how comfortable the hiking boots, or how comfortable and light is the backpack and all the camping gear, after a while everything just gets heavy. When we talk about light burdens for people, I often wonder if we are just talking relatively. I wonder, really, just how freeing and liberating our communities are? Or, like this cartoon, do we continually compare ourselves to others and... Read more
I am a part of a stubborn community of people. But I’m thankful for that. It is partially because of our stubbornness that we are still here. But I’m thankful for it for another, more important, reason: they will not be coerced into doing something they don’t want just to fulfill some expectation, no matter how virtuous or noble. The pressure to envision the community as something better or even other than what it is is inescapable and constant. My... Read more
// I’ve been so many places where money is obviously the emphasis and the love. And oh, btw, those are offering plates. twitter me Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here. Read more
// I’m not against money. Money is good. Wealth in itself isn’t a bad thing. Looking at it from a distance. I love business, the marketplace, entrepreneurship, all that stuff. I’m fascinated by it and, in fact, am attempting to build a business around my art. You can see my online art-gallery on etsy here. But man, can money ever take over! The lack of it or the possession of it. The overwhelming and total dominating power that money can... Read more
// twitter me Check out my t-shirts HERE. I’m growing my inventory all the time. And check out my contemplative art here and my nakedpastor art here. Read more
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