In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows.

One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a [...]

In this first of a two-part article, we continue our exploration of what it means to be a force of nature (more specifically, a force of creation), and begin to look at how this happens.

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In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell busts some myths surrounding those really talented people who seem to appear out of [...]

Navigating the Maelstrom…of Missional Leadership in Traditional Settings – I am listening to a podcasted Q&A session with Erwin McManus and UK church leaders as I write. One person asks: How do you go about discerning how you can make the best contribution [with your life]?

Erwin’s reply is basically: focus on the things you [...]

Just to recap from the last article, here I am, seeing and experiencing things more humanly and more missionally, but I’m part of a traditional denomination (namely Methodism), so what do I do?

I imagined this as a “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” question so I could use my “phone-a-friend” option. Here is the [...]

How can a movement go viral?

In the early days, I often operated under the following principle:

“Never do anything that the newest person cannot do.”

For example, when starting a Bible study, it was more important to transfer a value and a process for Bible study than it was to share my knowledge about the Bible. Sure, [...]

Navigating the maelstrom of missional leadership within a traditional context – I was invited to share in another denomination’s Good Friday service this year – one of seven people reflecting on the words Jesus speaks from the cross (mine were, “It is finished” – interesting, in the light of what I’m going to now [...]