Author: Keith Howard
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Power of Stories
Time again to turn to readings for the upcoming term for the Studio for Strategic Leadership at VST. The ability to recognize, tell and engage key stories from various dimensions of our life is a key thread in the Studio experience. Ran across this quote from a blog by Shawn Coyne on Steven Pressfield Online .…
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World Cafe Meets The U during First Session
Yesterday afternoon was spent primarily using the methodology of The World Cafe. Four people sit around a table and discuss a central question. Yesterday the question resembled: what are the major challenges facing leadership? They talk for 20-30 minutes, one person remains then the other three move to other tables. At the end of the…
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How Urgent is urgent?
Most of the BC folks straggled in last evening for the Future of Theological Education Consultation. The clock says 10 and the body says 7. As Brenda, Jim and (later) Janet gathered for a late supper and Diet Cokes the conversation turned to the matter of urgency. James Kotter names it as foundational in his…
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A Call
A young man had just been admitted with terminal cancer and was not “doing well,” said the Emergency Room attendant. The call came around 7:30 am to Gaye who volunteers as an on-call chaplain at the hospital. On Sunday I preached on another call, the famous call of Isaiah. One of the points I circled…
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Sermon – A New Way of Seeing
There is plenty of time to be careful about that for which we pray; this month perhaps we might just indulge the Dream-maker just a little. Who knows what might be envisioned? Sermon Jan 1.2012