by Rhett Smith | Oct 17, 2008 | Faith
Ben Witherington has really outdone himself this time, with one of the most thorough book reviews I have come across of Rob Bell and Dan Golden’s new book, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile. I’m a huge “fan” of...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 20, 2008 | Technology
I walked into the convention center today and saw this sign sitting at the front of the bookstore next to our book. Very cool, but pretty surreal seeing it next to books by Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss, etc. Especially since I only have a chapter in the book, and...
by Rhett Smith | Aug 21, 2008 | Technology
Just wrote my first blog post over at our book blog for The New Media Frontier. My chapter is New Media Ministry to the Myspace-Facebook Generation: Employing New Media Technologies Effectively In Youth Ministries. And the following is some of the framework I laid out...
by Rhett Smith | May 23, 2008 | Leadership
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...
by Rhett Smith | May 16, 2008 | Technology
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...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 10, 2008 | Writing
This hits too close to home…yikes. Jesus Wants to Save Christians A Manifesto for the Church in Exile by Rob Bell and Don Golden There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 12, 2008 | Writing
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...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 7, 2007 | Writing
It’s been about 17 days since I last posted anything, but that’s because the last 17 days have been crazy, tiring and very exciting. A lot of great things have been happening to me personally, and a lot of great things have been happening with our...
