by Rhett Smith on May 26, 2010
One of the topics that has been of great interest to me as of late is the idea of self-differentiation (differentiation of self). It has great interest to me in interpersonal relationships, and it has been really intriguing to me in terms of church leadership. There are lots of ways to talk about differentiation, but [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 29, 2009
I have found that there are a lot of people that are wanting to go to therapy, or at least try it out, but they are really unsure of how to go about finding a good therapist. There are several ways to go about this that I want to share with you, and then I’m [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 26, 2009
[image by jakeoneil] Last week I posted Exploring the Online Characteristics of Generation F/Y, and Their Implications-Part 1. This series was born out of my fascination with the great article, The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500. And for the first post focused on the first “online characteristic” of this generation, All ideas compete on [...]
by Rhett Smith on June 10, 2009
[image by Capture Queen] I have been thinking a lot…a lot about Anne Jackson’s recent decision, Saying Goodbye to Facebook. And then yesterday she followed it up with an article at Purpose Driven, Why I Kissed Facebook Goodbye. Something that Anne said in the article really stuck out to me: The ultimate question, for the [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 4, 2009
So I have been writing a few posts (will be 4 in all) on some areas that I think church employees need to rethink, or at best, at least address. Now I’m not writing these posts cause I have done all these things right, rather I am writing them because I have failed in all [...]
by Rhett Smith on April 22, 2009
I don’t even know where to start. There were such great comments on my post from Monday. When I wrote the post I knew that I wasn’t the only one thinking about this topic, but it was amazing to read some great insights that I had not thought about. A couple of things jumped out [...]
by Rhett Smith on April 14, 2009
I had the privilege to write an article for Collide Magazine for their March/April 2009 issue, and of course I wrote it on the topic of Twitter. But more specifically, my view on how Twitter is a shaping/sharing/telling of our narrative, one tweet at a time, to those we are in connection with. I began [...]
by Rhett Smith on January 22, 2009
I remember where I was at the exact moment I read the words below by Rob Bell in his book Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. I was sitting on our couch in Pasadena, CA and as I read each word the resonance grew deeper and deeper within me until I finally felt like I [...]
by Rhett Smith on October 28, 2008
The Context Last week I posted a blog, Becoming A Heretic on Church Ministry. I was playing off what Seth Godin says in his new book Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us. You can find my review of the book at Leadership Network. Godin says: Challenging the status quo requires a committment, both public [...]
by Rhett Smith on October 2, 2008
Some of the commenters from my post yesterday got me thinking about some things that I just briefly want to comment on. I ended my post with two thoughts: Two things I think pastors, church leaders need to start wrestling with if they haven’t already: 1) Shift from geographical based ministry to online community/networking based. [...]
