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Culture

How Do We Lead Gen F?

Gen F – the Facebook Generation. Facebook hit 200 million users this week, in 40 languages.  That’s doubled from 100 million just 8 short months ago. [Update: Facebook hit 500 million registered users in the summer of 2010.] The NY Times graphed the progress, including the generational element. If Facebook were a country, it would […]

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Leadership

Brokenness & Transformation: A Lent Meditation

Our old bathroom had two rooms: one for vanities, the other a toilet and tub. Dark and confining. Functional not inviting. Cheap white tile and brown stick-on linoleum, green walls, pickled cabinets, bisque porcelain. Displeasing dissonance. All must go. Potential: Could it be better? Brighter? An afternoon with Jack, Travis and a reciprocating saw begins […]

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Leadership

Becoming A Man of Prayer…Again

In January 2003 I became a man of prayer. It happened in this way…. A few days before Christmas I had received an urgent phone call. A last-minute cancellation provided an opportunity to teach a week-long class on the Pentateuch to a handful of national staff members living in a creative-access country. I had another […]