Category: Movements in History
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Water Day: Movements That Change the World
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Today is water day…and I want to be part of a water movement that brings clean water to…
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Tim Keller: On Movements
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On September 30th, in New York City, several organizations are hosting “a gathering of leaders to catalyze Gospel…
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Movements and Change
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I’ve been researching “social movements” of late and discovered the following definition of movements: “a collective action that…
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A Rope of Sand
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George Whitefield was Methodism’s first and most popular spokesman. Ben Franklin, one of Whitefield’s admirers, devised an experiment…
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Even More Mott on Movements 3
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Be Christ-like 9. It is not necessary that we do so many things, or that we have our…
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Mott on Movements Part 2
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More Mott on Movements Raise the Bar 4. Make the gospel difficult and you make it triumphant. “Christ…
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Missional Team Leadership: The Lessons of Wilberforce
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Andy Crouch had a fascinating article in the last Catalyst ezine entitled The Horizons of the Possible: Why…
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Integrated Thinking and Movement Building
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I’m wondering whether movement building requires integrated thinking. In his book, “The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win…
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Required Reading: Creating a Better Hour
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I recently began reading "Creating the Better Hour: Lessons from William Wilberforce" (Stroud & Hall Publishers) and am…
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Some Line of Usefulness: Part II
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Do all leaders sense that God has given them an assignment? Are all movement leaders like Jeremiah who…
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Bonhoeffer at Christmas
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Occasionally Bonhoeffer waxes poetic. I love this quote, which I read from his A Testament of Freedom. Movement…
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Some Line of Usefulness
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Samuel Wilberforce received the following advice from his “then famous” father, William Wilberforce. The father, concerned for his…
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Inspire Evangelists
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In Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Crutchfield and Grant argue that high-impact nonprofits excel…
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Changing the World
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“When you become a Christian, Jesus will invade your life and make you into somebody he can use…
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I have a dream
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I ran across a fascinating essay about what would have been a normally uninteresting topic, “The Death of…
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The Found Art of Disciplemaking
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I just returned from Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is competing with Haiti to become the “poorest nation in…
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Change: the product of quiet, steady, unremitting pressure
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I’m not a fan of the French, but I remember studying abt this little guy who made a…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion
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What is the relationship between good news and good deeds in our movement building? I’ve been wrestling with…
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Rediscovering Christianity’s Beginnings
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes…
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The Micah Mandate
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I just finished reading George Grant’s The Micah Mandate. Grant argues that the “model for Christian living is…
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The Honest Worker
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(This 1898 photograph from a souvenir publication shows how Anne Sullivan (at right) “read-spelled” to Helen Keller and…
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What can I do?
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I’ve been listening to a book about Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Founded by…
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The New Friars
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Scott Bessenecker in his new book The New Friars gives us a picture of how the Spirit of…
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Movements Begin at the Fringes
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In the study of the history of missions, one can even be formulaic about asserting that all great…
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One well-worn coat, two silver teaspoons, and the Methodist Church
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On March 2nd, 1791, John Wesley announced his last word Farewell and died as family and friends prayed…
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Movements: Some New Thoughts (To Me Anyway)
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I’ve been wrestling with john b. hayes’ sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation…
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The Clapham Circle: Changing the World
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I went to Amazing Grace again last night. I loved it even more. I paid more attention to…
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Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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How do leaders avoid the Curse of Knowledge–that inability of experts to communicate their great ideas clearly? They…
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Movement Leaders — Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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Having just finished reading a biography of William Wilberforce and a collections of speeches by Martin Luther King,…
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