Against my better judgment, I bought a copy of Reformed Man Today, that patriarchal periodical of male chauvinism par excellence. Apart from the distasteful front cover photo of the execrable Trotter brothers, Del-Boy and Rodney, holding copies of their new…
We’ll be praying for you Steve. You can take solace in the fact that I have already missed more deadlines and driven more editors to drink than you ever will (not because I’m more prolific, but because you are more…
Karen and I celebrated eighteen years of marriage today. I have come to believe that nothing so much as marriage reveals my sins as well as my virtues. It has been in marriage that my selfishness has risen to its…
Inspired by Ligon’s post, I thought I’d share with you my activities for the week. I have a slightly overdue manuscript for the good folk at Crossway. But this week it’ll get done. I thought my days of all-nighters and cramming would have…
“In the 1970s and 1980s, on every side and in almost every way, it was becoming clear that ways of doctrinal thinking were wearing very thin. The capacity to think doctrinally was being lost as new leaders emerged, as the…
Ezra 7:10 “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.” (ESV) I was struck as I listened last night to yet another…
One of the key teachings in the course (on the art and practice of leadership development) that I took at Harvard this past week was the importance of “owning your piece of the mess.” That is to say, as we operate…
As part of our occasional series of interviews with leading London taxi drivers, we are today posing the question,` Karl Barth: Fried or Foe?’ to Joe Strummer – no, not the front man of anarchic, Rock Against Racism, seventies punk…
I’m back home after a week at Harvard University where I attended a course on “the art and practice of leadership development.” The course was led by Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz, who co-authored Leadership on the Line. It was…
An important aspect to being a Gospel-shaped, Gospel-driven church is hospitality. We must learn to think of our facilities as not only being our place but our neighbor’s place as well. The word “hospitality” has come to mean little more…
