the waiting country

Nick Nowalk has a great piece over at The Harvard Icthus entitled The Christian Epistemology of Narnia . Apart from a long and judicious q...

Scott Belsky makes some fine points in this article about the need for downtime and sacred space. It doesn't take much imagination to ...

In the course of an article on Really Bad Powerpoint , Seth Godin makes these remarks: Communication is about getting others to adopt your p...

Watching this conversation with Matt Chandler made me realise, again, that all Christians - no matter what their service - are first and for...

Philip Pullman was recently interviewed (for the 5-minute interview slot) by Matthew Stadlen. Asled if he was an agnostic or an atheist, he...

Maybe your ambition is to be described in somewhat more glowing terms than 'a competent minister'. But that's Paul's claim f...

See  this article  from the BBC. You can listen to the radio show here .

In concert with reflections on religious affections, Paul Helm has also written a couple of pieces on the topic of 'Christian Hedonism...

Then you might want to have a read of this...

Christianity Today has published the reflections of several prominent church leaders to the events of 9/11 and the decade that has followed...

A very interesting article over at HBR about a leader's role in a crisis. Worth pondering for anyone involved in serving the church, no...

Over at Koinonia , Bill Mounce asks the question, Who reigns in the millenial kingdom? Maybe not the kind of question you worry about too mu...

Over the summer holiday, I read John Stott's fine book The Preacher's Portrait . These were addresses given in 1961 at Fuller Theolo...

Need to make your to-do list actually doable? Maybe the good folks at Lifehacker can help you.

It's clearly a case of both/and but where should the emphasis lie/ Here's an interesting post by David Murray, himself a college du...

As I recall, I first read about this little book via Tim Keller, somewhere, somehow. All I can say is, 'Cor, thanks Tim!' It's a...

Here's a list of Paul's words to Timothy about his ministry - seems like a good place to start. 1 Timothy command certain people not...

HT: Justin Taylor

These words by Steven Covey (HT: Matt Perman ) are very challenging when applied to church culture: A low-trust culture is filled with burea...