From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Back in town…

by Rhett Smith on March 30, 2008

I just got back in town after 8 amazing days in Mexico City with some college students from UCLA. We served with two of our partenrs, Amextra and Partners in Hope. That was my second trip with these partners and it has continued to be life changing, especially this one. So I will be posting [...]

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At some point or another you begin to say to yourself, “My blogroll is growing larger and larger….what do I do?” Maybe you don’t ask that question, but I sure do. I have been blogging for almost four years and over that time you read a lot of blogs and make a lot of friends. [...]

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If you are like me you have several Moleskines “in play” at one time, and I’ve had a hard time figuring out the best way to use them. Meaning, I am always writing stuff in them, but haven’t quite figured out a good organizational system to retrieve the information, etc. Joe Thorn has a great [...]

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Let’s All Be Honest With Ourselves…Can We?

by Rhett Smith on March 18, 2008

If you read or watch the news for any length you are bound to come across Christians who make pretty demonstrative statements about how voting for one candidate or another would be wrong as a Christian. Examples: There are those who say that if you vote for Obama, who is pro-choice, then as a Christian [...]

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Wikinomics is blowing my mind…

by Rhett Smith on March 17, 2008

One of the things on my mind most recently is the concept of collaboration, and how the Church can better harness this synergy within its congregations and in its communities. But my biggest fear is that many churches will continue to maintain hierarchical structures out of fear of losing power and will be unable to [...]

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Howard Rheingold speaking at TED on the rise of collaboration Great stuff. I am more and more convinced (as are many others) that more and more collaboration needs to be taking place in the Church. Some churches do it well, others do not. But as these up and coming generations (think of the kids now) [...]

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CEO’s and Catalysts: The Future of Leadership

by Rhett Smith on March 12, 2008

Just posted at Leadership Network on the book, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. This is a really amazing book. I was nodding my head throughout, both nervous and excited about the future of leadership. Nervous because it involves a lot of changes. Excited, because the changes need to be [...]

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I could probably post a few more reasons, but as I mentioned before, I tend not to post much on politics. So this is reason #3, and the final posting in this series (you can read the other two reasons below). Reason #3: Hope This is the one word that I hear more often than [...]

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You can read my previous post and reason #1 (openness) below. Just a reminder. These are non-political observations that I’m making, based on my experience in working with the typical young adults demographic and under (35 and younger). So if you want to read all my caveats about me not typicall writing on politics, or [...]

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First of all, let me say that I never write on politics. I just never have. The topic is obviously very important and interesting, but it just doesn’t interest me and fire me up like some of my friends and family. Second, I don’t consider myself an expert on politics. I watch the news, read [...]

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