by Rhett Smith on May 31, 2008
Of all the topics I’m going to address in this series, this seems to be the no-brainer to me. I started blogging about 4 years ago at the encouragement of one of my students at the time, Jared Kleier. He set up a blog for me on our college website and away we went, though [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 28, 2008
The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross. Henri Nouwen, In The Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, 62. Just yesterday I was in two conversations on topics related to discipleship, [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 23, 2008
Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (pp. 29-30) Running an organization is difficult in and of itself, no matter what its goals. Every transaction it undertakes—every contract, every agreement, every meeting—requires it to expend some limited resource: time, attention, or money. Because of these transaction costs, some sources of [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 23, 2008
Ryan at Tilling the Soil asked me a couple of good questions related to my post below, so I want to give them proper attention in a post, and not just leave a comment for him. I had the chance to talk with Ryan by phone last week and I enjoyed our conversation, and I’m [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 22, 2008
I think it’s important for college ministries to be forumlating a plan, and developing some ideas about how they can strategically use the internet to best serve their ministry. There are a lot of topics that I could cover, and maybe 9 posts is too much, so I will try and keep them shorter than [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 21, 2008
Back on Wednesday, April 23 I wrote a post called This Isn’t Your Parent’s Prayer Chain. The post was about a young woman in our church, Katherine Wolf, who was one of the volunteer leaders in the Young Marrieds ministry, and who went through an unbelievable 13 hour emergency brain surgery at UCLA. There are [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 20, 2008
There are a lot of conferences out there, but here are two that I will be talking about more, especially as time draws closer. DRINK–CollegeLeader Conference September 4-7, 2008 in Southern California! DRINK: The reservoir of college-age ministry resources is no longer dry. It’s no secret that it’s been bone dry for years, but we [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 16, 2008
DISCLAIMERS: 1)There are better technical people out there concerning the web. 2) Do as I suggest, not as I do. I’m trying to keep up myself, and our college website reflects almost nothing of what I talk about. That’s how fast things change. 3) There are a lot of college ministries out there, and there [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 16, 2008
It’s funny how some words become commonplace in a community or culture. As a resident of Los Angeles you hear a lot of talk about “sex” and “sushi.” It seems that these are two things that Angelenos highly esteem. So when I came across the book, “Sex, Sushi & Salvation: Thoughts on Intimacy, Community, & [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 16, 2008
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