La cruz subversiva – TravelBlog 4

Day four in El Salvador left me wanting to cry “Demasiado!” — there was just way too much to write about. Just the highlights from a long rainy day in the life of Calvary Baptist Church’s team that is learning and sharing in El Salvador this...

Three Keys to Partnering with Religious Vendors

I am a terrible salesperson. When I believe in an organization, I readily participate in it and support it, share its value with others and ask them to support it as well, but I am not naturally inclined to push people to buy or invest in something. An entrepreneur...

Dead Sea Scrolls Receive New Life Online

You may or may not have seen recentnews indicating that a partnership between the IsraelMuseum and GoogleIsrael is making high-resolution images of the famous DeadSeaScrollsavailableonline.  If you didn’t notice, a million others did: five of the scrolls debuted...

Why Ron Paul’s Church Commitments Matter

Does it matter where presidential candidate Ron Paul goes to church? The answer is “yes.” The trigger for the question was his response during a Republican presidential debate on CNN. Moderator Wolf Blitzer said to Texas Rep. Paul: “Let me ask you...

Why So Many Mourn the Passing of Steve Jobs

Watching the news reports of those mourning the death of Steve Jobs, it struck me that for the first time in my experience people are genuinely saddened at the death of a business leader, rather than a rock star, a member of the royal family or a politician. Did Henry...

Jesus’ Leadership Model: Servants Over CEOs

In what way does Jesus inform, and perhaps transform, our understanding of leadership? As we answer that question, we need to resist the temptations to make him over in our image, domesticate him and limit his reach. We don’t need to dress him up in a blue suit,...