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January 2024

January 02, 2024

What if Churches Shouldn’t Have Goals?

If you're heavily involved in a church congregation right now, you might soon be asked...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Treasure the Doing, More than the Getting It Done

The source of nearly all human misery can be traced back to an often unconscious...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

On the Importance of Disappointing Your Congregation: Now up at HuffPo

A version of the recent post "On the Importance of Disappointing Your Congregation" is...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

10 Ways to Make Your Life Better

I ran across this question recently and it immediately got my imagination going: What are 10...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

4 Mistakes Leaders Make While Trying to Avoid Vulnerability

"The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as a leader is this: If I am...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

What is the Path to Human Freedom? (It’s Not What You Think It Is)

Freedom is a big deal in our culture—the founding virtue of American society—despite the fact...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture – Now Available Wherever Books are Sold

Our society is fascinated with success. The American story is about bigger, better, higher, stronger,...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

All In On WooWoo – A Little Friday Funny

So, I'm attempting to come down from a bit of an unplanned blog hiatus. I...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

This Papal Conclave Will Not Address the Single Most Important Issue: Celibacy

The issues facing the Roman Catholic Church are daunting and well documented: decades of sexual...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Why Do We Keep Choosing Narcissistic Leaders?

I read an interesting article today from the Harvard Business Review about the rash of...

November 18, 2012

Andy Stanley and Charles Stanley – What Really Happened?

For years I've heard the whispers about what happened between Andy Stanley, one of the...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Tuesdays with Walter Part 06 – The Language of Leadership is Theological

I’m in the midst of a long term experiment with the staff at Redemption Church...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Tuesdays With Walter Part 04 – Even Missional Leadership Attempts to Co-opt God in Support of Their Model

My series, Tuesdays with Walter, continues today with a reflection on one simple but revolutionary...

September 18, 2012

Tuesdays With Walter Part 03: Leadership Reflections from Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination

Review of Chapter one: Reality: We have been enculturated, all of us – claimed by...

September 04, 2012

Tuesdays with Walter Part 01 – Leading A Church that is More American than Christian

We have a strange habit on the staff of Redemption Church where I pastor. Instead...