Started 12/26/16 Heard about it on Tim Ferriss Show podcast Introduction Junger desired for some calamity just so he could be part of a band coming together to survive. (xiv) STORY – Man gives Junger his lunch; Man took responsibility for Junger (beyond generosity). (xiv-xvii) “Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what […]
Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity Tina Seelig – 2012, HarperOne Finished December, 2013. Author: @tseelig – http://about.me/tinaseelig Introduction “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Hay “Creativity is an endless renewable resource.” “The parts of your brain that are responsible for self-monitoring are literally turned off during creative endeavors.” (118) […]
Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown – 2009, HarperBusiness Finished October, 2013. Great video here on IDEO’s design process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJOV-YCieI Introduction Design has a human-centered; not technology centered worldview “David Kelley” – “Design Thinking” Innovation is now a survival strategy Change by Design’s two parts: design thinking as […]
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why Phyllis Tickle – 2012 (Reprint Edition), Baker Finished re-reading August, 2013. Best parts to re-read are chapters 1 and 5. Brief Summary: Roughly every 500 years, the church seems to have a “giant rummage sale,” shedding off old ways of being, doctrine, and practice, adopting new […]
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Douglas Rushkoff – 2013, Current Finished August, 2013. Douglas Rushkoff on Twitter: @rushkoff Summary/Notes: Chapter 1– Narrative Collapse – Makes the case that we’ve lost our narrative framework and tend to gravitate towards that which provides meaning/entertainment in the present Narrative Collapse frames that make meaning are being […]
How Much is Enough? Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture Arthur Simon – 2003, Baker Books Finished January, 2013 Summary/Notes: A Preliminary Word A quick overview of the book. One: That Seductive Urge Serve God over mammon. Two: Fat Wallets, Empty Lives Christians must become less possessed by “things” and more awakened to […]
Last Friday, I took our youth to see the new Man of Steel movie as part of our Lockout. Some of our chaperones noted after the movie, as did I, that there were some rather overt Christian snapshot scenes in the movie. Most notably, one where Clark has a brief conversation with a priest in a […]
Many of the kids in my youth group often tell me that their teachers won’t allow them to use Wikipedia as a source in any of their reports. I cringe every time I hear something like this and wonder why it seems that most teachers and/or educational systems seem to be in reactive mode and […]
I just finished reading Leonora Tubbs Tisdale’s Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art since my wife had recently purchased it, I figured I’d give it a read. I wasn’t terribly impressed. I didn’t really disagree with much that Tubbs Tisdale said, but that’s mostly because she didn’t say much. Perhaps, I’m being a bit […]
I recently read Jeff Sharlet’s Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between. It is a collection of essays loosely bound under a theme of religious expression, mostly exploring faith on the margins. I found most compelling, my favorite essays being the following: Chapter 3, “Begin With the Dead” on prophetic […]