leaving a legacy:

Here is a book review of A Leader’s Legacy by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (HT David Mays)

Kouzes and Posner are best known for their award-winning book The Leadership Challenge.  This is a collection of brief essays dealing with personal aspects of leadership.  Main section headings are Significance, Relationships, Aspirations and Courage.  There [...]

primal branding: displacing religion with products

Book review of book by Patrick Hanlon called Primal Branding: Create Zealots for your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future.  Reviewed by David Mays.

Hanlon has been a senior executive at some of the world’s most creative advertising agencies.  Hanlon says that a brand is a community of believers held together by seven assets that create [...]

mind set

Here as some book notes on John Naisbitt’s Mind Set. Very stimulating. HT to the ever-resourceful David Mays

Everyone has a mental picture of the world. It comes largely by extrapolating what they see in their own piece of the world through their own grid or mind set. The international best-selling author [...]

viola strikes back (pun intended)

As mentioned before, Frank Viola and George Barna have written a book called Pagan Christianity that delivers a rather stinging critique of widely accepted church practices. They are coming under a lot of fire for it. Frank has a website where he tries to engage people (critics and acolytes alike). I have really appreciated the [...]

pagan christianity

I received a review copy of Frank Viola and George Barna’s Pagan Christianity. This feisty book attacks the incipient paganism that has been absorbed into historic Christianity over the years. It exposes the syncretistic weak spots in what we assume to be basic in our way of doing church. Thoroughly iconoclastic, it is [...]

incarnational mission–the real christmas spirit

Once again, I am presenting David May’s book notes. this time taken from Scott Bessenker’s new book The New Friars. I believe that is one of the significant new books articulating the value of vow based communities among the poor. This, along with my friend John Haye’s book Submerge, the fantastic Rutba House [...]

the twilight of atheism

Here are some quotes taken from Alistair McGrath’s book, The Twilight Of Atheism. I have taken these from David May’s excellent summary of that book. What interests me is McGrath’s thesis that the relation of atheism to the corruption of religion in general and the church in particular. Atheism is more a [...]

the great giveaway

David Fitch’s book The Great Giveaway is a real gift to the church at this time. No, perhaps more than a gift; it is rather like a much needed splash of prophetically icy water for a church inebriated by the seductive forces of our age. Let the subtitle speak for itself: [...]

organic community

Joe Myers has written a really good book called Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect. I have been meaning to review it for some time, so why not now.

It has a fresh feel and, given that it uses organic ideas to re-imagine (and therefore reshape) Christian life together, I find myself [...]

a radio interview with hirschey

Rodney Olsen from Perth’s Sonshine FM did a radio interview with me about TFW and has made it generally available. If you want to listen or download, go to Rodney’s blog or download here.

bobbob does it again

My mate Bob Roberts Jr has gone and published another book. Its called Glocalization and its a great read. His concern is not only that we engaged locally as well as globally at the same time, but that we engage in every sphere of life and not just that of the church. [...]

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