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In all things, be men: Paul T. Coughlin, No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice—Instead of Good—Hurts Men, Women And Children

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , , on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Paul Coughlin’s treatise on masculinity for Christian men is unsubtle in tone. His argument is repetitive. His research is narrow and clichéd. He wears his heart too much on his sleeve.

All in all, a very worthwhile book. (more…)

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background reading for Hoosiers in business: Indiana Business Magazine

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This little 48-pager is one of those periodicals you need to browse in order to know what’s goin’ on around you. This genre of magazine tends to throw up at least one fascinating article and about two items of business environment news per issue that you don’t want to go without.

If you’re a Hoosier and the social version of peripheral vision matters to you, be sure to have a monthly peek at IndianaBusiness.

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must be known to be loved: The Wall Street Journal

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, paterfamilias, reseña on August 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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Question: Is there a better American English-language daily anywhere?

Answer: no. (more…)

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one fine small-business read: Inc. magazine

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña on August 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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This self-described ‘Handbook of the American Entrepeneur’ is one fine piece of work. I read it cover to cover upon arrival. (more…)

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interesting … but Inc. is more useful: Fast Company magazine

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña on August 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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Fast Company is a good magazine for the inquisitive entrepeneur, don’t get me wrong.

But it poses a little too much for my tastes. The semi-gloss paper, the unconventional size sheets, the avant-garde graphics, the just slightly off-the-wall article selection … it’s all a convincing fashion statement. (more…)

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meets expectations: Harvard Business Review

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña on August 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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Not every publication gets to use the name ‘Harvard’ in their masthead. It’s a perk that comes with the territory and banks on the accumulated legacy of many generations of excellence. (more…)

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gem-quality advice for non-profit boards and execs: Brian H. Vogel, Dollars and Sense. The Nonprofit Board’s Guide to Determining Chief Executive Compensation

Posted in clarity, reseña on August 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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BoardSource habitually produces short works for non-profit leaders that–once read–leave one wondering how we muddled through without knowing about this resource. This reviewer wonders how they keep up the pace. (more…)

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What does excellence in theological education look like?

Posted in clarity, denkschrift on August 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »

During a recent visit to the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cairo (Presbyterian), I was invited to share some extemporaneous thoughts with the faculty on the topic of ‘excellence in theological education’. The gist of my remarks follows.

When we speak of achieving excellence in theological education, we must take ourselves and our alleged competencies out of the center. I have often said—first to myself and then to anyone who should ask—that I will leave the pastoral vocation of theological education only when it ceases to become a disciple-making enterprise. Making disciples embraces a critical role for the mentor whose life is offered with trembling hands as a model. Yet it is not fundamentally about me. Or about you. (more…)

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rrhythmia: the habit of letting chaos be

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, rrythmia on August 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »

A perfect chaos absorbs the street of Cairo, the most splendid disregard for safe conduct that the mind can imagine.

It is as though millennia of human experience in self-preservation have been sucked out of the atmosphere, leaving men and women to fling themselves moth-like into the lamp, banging time and time against glass, seeking out with obsessive will the consuming flame, loving ten times more the wick than the placid darkness where a moth might fly all night long to its heart’s content. (more…)

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rrythmia: the habit of waiting

Posted in clarity, denkschrift on August 17, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Back then, ‘work stoppage’ belonged to the patois of the factory, not the baseball diamond.

It had not yet become the lingua franca that mediates between the players’ ‘strike’ and the owners’ ‘lockout’. You played baseball for fun and for as long as you could, and you assumed everyone else who could did the same. The idea of deciding not to play baseball had not occurred to us, perhaps like the concept ‘Interstate Highway’ before the invention of the wheel. If picketing at the plant meant some kids ate tuna fish for two weeks straight, at least you could comfort yourself with the Phillies’ box score in the morning paper. If they had beat up on the Mets, labor disputes or a dad’s missed paycheck seemed a slightly irritating footnote. (more…)

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