Crows and the Pretty Birds
At some point in my daily walk, I realized the only birds I heard were crows.
Ethical Storytelling, with Rachel Goble and Heidi Burkey
The person to whom the story belongs should always have a voice in the process.
Vanessa Chase Lockshin – The Storytelling Nonprofit
In non-profit storytelling, there are several factors to consider as you tell a story. The organization is telling someone’s story, and that person is often in a vulnerable position. “I often wondered, if our clients read these stories would they be happy with the way we portrayed them?”
Book Review – Permission to Screw Up
Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong Kristen Hadeed started her business, the cleaning service now called Student Maid, by accident. She stumbled through mistakes that should have cost her everything, but didn’t. …
Allison Mayer, Witness with Images
Allison Mayer is a photojournalist, using images to tell true stories and to help us understand the world. She describes herself as witness, storyteller and artist. She reminds us not to get so caught up in the story we want to tell that we miss the story unfolding before us.
Book Review: There is No Me Without You
There is something beautiful about the way we are all knit together. Melissa Fay Greene’s “There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children” weaves a tapestry of love, hope, and decency in the midst of …
My Top 5 Most Influential Books for Christian Poverty Alleviation
These books have shaped my thoughts and work. If you want to come to Africa and help the children, these are the books I recommend. Read them all. Read the Bible along with them. Soak it all with prayer. Be …
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Where does integrity come from?
The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, Joseph …
Embracing the New
We are in the process of changing the software we use to control images on the big screens in our sanctuary. The new software comes to us highly recommended. Thousands of churches use it. The feature list had all the …
Warm by the Fire
Listening to NPR on the radio this morning, just after dropping the boys off at school, I heard the very last part of an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Now 78, he has been an advocate for human rights, Nobel …