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“Introverts in the Church” — Interview with Adam S. McHugh/Part 2

by Rhett Smith on December 17, 2009

On Tuesday I posted the first part of my interview with Adam McHugh (“Introverts in the Church” — Interview with Adam S. McHugh/Part 1), whom you can find blogging and writing here. As I’ve already said about a million times already, his new book, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture [...]

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“Introverts in the Church” — Interview with Adam S. McHugh/Part 1

by Rhett Smith on December 15, 2009

Back in the early part of the fall I made a comment on Twitter about being exhausted from all the deep conversations I was involved in at a conference, and Adam McHugh wrote an @reply to me asking if I was an introvert. It was an interesting observation and comment, and a question I have [...]

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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller

by Rhett Smith on September 29, 2009

What would one’s life look like if it was written with, and contained the elements that make for a good story? This is the fundamental question that I believe Donald Miller is after in his new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life. Don says that a [...]

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Book Recommendation: The Mystery of Marriage

by Rhett Smith on July 16, 2009

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle is a book that I read probably back in 1999, or 2000, after I was required to do a book report for one of my family counseling classes in seminary. This book was one of a handful of books recommended by my professor, and at the time [...]

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Limits and Potential: Living Free Within That Tension

by Rhett Smith on March 16, 2009

“Everything in the universe has a nature, which means limits as well as potentials, a truth well known by people who work daily with the things of the world. Making pottery, for example, involves more than telling the clay what to become. The clay presses back on the potter’s hands, telling her what it can [...]

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Depression, Burnout & Ministry: Assessment

by Rhett Smith on February 2, 2009

Assessing Depression This is the 4th post in my series on Depression, Burnout & Ministry, and it is the one where I hope to provide some critieria of symptoms that might help us out if we are wondering about this issue. There are a variety of factors and tools that one may use in assessing [...]

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