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#BCYD13 Listed: Top Quotes, Tweeters, & Coffee
A few things I kept track of during #bcyd13. Quotes, tweeters, and coffee. Top 16 Quotes 1. Peel back the first layer and reveal for yourself a wafer. -Ken Russell 2. The kingdom of God will never be advanced by people who seek to preserve themselves. -Carter Conlon 3. We need more courage and less strategy. [...]
Dear Whistler, Thanks For Helping Us Step Off the Concrete
Before my family and I moved from the city to Whistler we had made a pretty good list of reasons why we should quit our well paying jobs with benefits, a future, and a Christmas bonus. But in the end the list of reasons didn’t really matter, what mattered was that we be where we [...]
Speak To Your Own Generation
The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also – as the Quakers used to say – “speak the condition” of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must not only be timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation. – A.W. Tozer
Your Church Needs to Stop Planning
Early in my leadership journey and influenced by an A-list of leadership rock-stars I came to believe that to be an impacting leader I would need a water-proof 5-year plan for my organization. This set me onto a course of reading, listening, and asking questions to anyone I viewed as successful and, predictably, I heard [...]
Kurt Cobain and Sainthood
Every now and again a new idea, band, or film comes along that simply doesn’t change how a genre is viewed or expressed – it creates a genre. Since 1991 and Nirvana’s release of their album Nevermind, there has been a musical flood of Seattle Grunge (as it was soon labeled) that grew up in [...]
Are You a Friend or a Resource?
I recently had drinks with a resource. They were nice, we had good conversation, and when we finished we shook hands and both made the comment we should do this again. After all, we could really be useful to each other (as long as we both held up our end of the unspoken arrangement). Problem [...]
I’m Worried This Will Have Too Much Impact on My Soul – Feedback Needed!
Over the last little while I’ve been writing some of my questions and frustrations down into a single statement that I think captures where I am at right now regarding my hope and interactions for the Church in Canada. As I read and re-read what I’ve been writing it feels very bleak and like I [...]
My Debate with Pride
Recently I found myself hosting an event here in Whistler during the 20th anniversary of Winter Pride, an 8-day festival of events & parties catered to the LGBTQ crowd and run by Gay Whistler. The event I MC’d was a debate featuring prominent members of the Pride community who had respectful and entertaining dialogue around [...]
How to Destroy Community (OR How to Be a Hermit)
When my wife and I were first married we lived in very small cabin at the bottom of a mountain ravine with little sun and lot’s of privacy. We had a small wood stove to heat the place and, had I wanted, I could have fished salmon in the creek while sitting on our back [...]
