Category Archives: church

Jim Collins on Excellence in Church Employees

Posted on July 21, 2010 by luke

I happened on an excellent session from Catalyst 2008 with Andy Stanley interviewing Jim Collins about keeping employees who are a poor fit in a position. Andy says that churches are all about mercy — so sometimes, out of compassion … Continue reading →

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Checking Our Heads

Posted on July 2, 2010 by luke

Yesterday, I enthused about the PC(USA) website’s makeover, and one of my Facebook friends went to see it. He’s a Southern Baptist, and he wasn’t impressed with this quote on the home page: The pull quote you see here isn’t … Continue reading →

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New PC(USA) Site

Posted on July 1, 2010 by luke

Hey, cool. The PC(USA) has updated its website. It looks like a huge improvement over what we’ve had the last umpteen years. Congratulations to whoever put this together.

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PC(USA) ordains 1st Iranian Pastor

Posted on June 17, 2010 by luke

Hey, this is a small world. Mansour Khajehpour was just ordained by Seattle Presbytery as the first Iranian to become a PC(USA) minister of Word and sacrament. I knew Mansour (a little) in seminary. He was in the class two … Continue reading →

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A Catholic Martyr

Posted on June 12, 2010 by luke

I was vaguely aware that Pope Benedict XVI recently visited Cyprus, but I missed this story about the martyrdom of Luigi Padovese, on June 3 of this year.

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Atheist Recommends Christians Convert Muslims?

Posted on June 12, 2010 by luke

MacLeans has an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who was raised as a Muslim but who has become an atheist. In the article, she said Christians should proselytize Muslims, at least in the West:

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Kids in Church

Posted on April 28, 2010 by luke

I was recently at a conference where I was startled to notice this sign on the doors to the worship center:

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Anybody have a PC to spare?

Posted on April 15, 2010 by luke

We’ve had a number of problems with the secretary’s PC lately. The infamous Blue Screen of Death It’s doing this a lot. A whole lot. If you have a not-too-obsolete PC you could spare, we could certainly put it to … Continue reading →

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Encountering the Culture

Posted on March 1, 2010 by luke

Then he went about among the villages teaching. He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. —Mark 6:6-7 In AD 100, the worldwide total number of Christians might have been about 25,000. For the next … Continue reading →

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Dictation Software Chuckle

Posted on February 15, 2010 by luke

In my work, I use MacSpeech Dictate, a voice-recognition program for the mac, a fair bit. (It’s pretty good software: the kind you swear by as much as you swear at. Most bad software you either throw out or become … Continue reading →

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