Charting Church Leadership Designing community-based leadership for a stronger church Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:49:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Stephen the deacon was martyred by first-century nationalists https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2017/08/stephen-martyred-nationalists/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:39:16 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=223 When it comes to an ideological battle between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, the New Testament is entirely on the side of cosmopolitanism. Nationalists are the villains! Nowhere is the story more powerfully told than in the martyrdom of Stephen. Yet, if you learned to read Acts 6 and 7 the way I did, you probably think […]

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]]> Paul models resistance to discrimination https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2017/01/paul-opposed-peter/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 02:18:53 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=212 It’s clear that justification by faith in Galatians is rightly understood as general and eternal doctrine. But it’s too easy for distant readers like us to perceive a watered-down, bloodless abstraction of the “works of the law”. Paul wrote of a specific conflict with the apostle Peter over discrimination against Gentiles.

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]]> The exemplary restraint of the ultimate conservative leader https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2016/03/the-exemplary-restraint-of-the-ultimate-conservative-leader/ Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:40:03 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=199 God Himself, incarnate with human nerve endings, complete with adrenaline, cortisol, and endorphines, was being fiercely provoked to show Himself. How did He react?

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]]> Wheaton, model strong leadership: defend Dr. Hawkins https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2016/01/wheaton-model-strong-leadership-defend-dr-hawkins/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 04:45:38 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=182 Do pastors, entrepreneurs, managers, and supervisors have anything to do with the controversy over Wheaton College Professor Larycia Hawkins? Absolutely. This is not an obscure and bizarre academic controversy. It’s very relevant to your job and your company and your church.

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]]> Follow a Jewish carpenter: Joseph https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/12/follow-a-jewish-carpenter-joseph/ Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:12:14 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=170 Faced with the scandal of his fiancee's pregnancy, Joseph was a good man with honorable instincts. But good wasn’t enough for God, who challenged Joseph to take Mary's humiliation upon himself.

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]]> Our model for leadership is a pagan prostitute https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/11/our-model-for-leadership-is-a-pagan-prostitute/ Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:48:39 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=151 What is a Canaanite prostitute from Jericho doing right next to "our father Abraham" as an example of "faith with deeds" in the best-known passage of the Biblical letter from James (2:14-28)?

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]]> Want to lead? Exhibit, expect, and enable a growth mindset. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/11/growth-mindset/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 04:57:15 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=136 Research findings show achievable benefits from a growth mindset and avoidable costs of believing people can't grow.

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]]> Let’s talk US religion and politics … with charts! https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/11/visualizing-american-religion-and-politics/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:54:38 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=116 Find your favorite religious (or irreligious) group in political space! Introducing a powerful interactive visualization of the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape Survey data, with a 2014 update to come soon.

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]]> Banish the bullies: don’t stand for workplace tyranny https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/10/banish-the-bullies/ Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:02:28 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=97 How's this for a scary Halloween story: bullies in the workplace will destroy a culture of cooperation and replace it with cutthroat competition.

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]]> The secret to workplace success? Live it. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/2015/10/work-is-life/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:52:29 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/chartingchurchleadership/?p=92 The problem with the church is not that we aren't holy enough, that we aren't set apart. It's that we too easily come to behave as if holiness and spirituality mean we act strangely on Sundays and look down on everyone else all week. That's not being set apart. It's a simple, straightforward reflection of worldly, corporate, popular culture that does exactly the same thing with the workplace.

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