Bill Hybels responds to Starbuck's ceo withdrawing from Willow Creek's Leadership Summit. Regardless of what you might think of Willow Creek or the "controversy" that surrounded this, I think Hybels response is excellent; he addressed it with a lot of grace... and actually made me pick up Howard Schultz's book Onward when I saw it at the library this week. (I'm only about 1/3 of the way into the book, but already agree with Hybels that it is excellent).
Roger Olson on Process Theology - it's interesting in that I've always considered myself in or near the process theology "camp" , but based on Olson's definition, I'm not (because I don't see God and the world as being ontologically interdependent). I also enjoyed Olson's post on Something Protestants should borrow from Catholics.
Four signs you are becoming an irrelevant church leader.
Fred Clark on Is Rick Perry a 'sucker' or is he just lying, unlike Fred I am likely to give the benefit of the doubt and believe that most politicians err on the side of stupid rather than malicious, but I always appreciate Fred's analysis. Also from Fred on the theme of truth telling, this time from the pulpit: Glurge and Ghost Stories I don't think I've ever been as egregious of the violations Fred cites - I've never tried to sell another's story as my own, and there have been a couple cases where I have tried to fact-check or explain a sermon illustration that falls more into the "metaphor" rather than "history" category, but I can see where it is an easy trap to fall into.
Top 10 Tips for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. Always good information to know.
I'm falling in love with Spotify - it's a great site for finding and listening to music, new and old, with some great social networking features. Their music catalogue is pretty deep allowing me to reconnect with music I used to have on cassettes that have been lost though the ages (and I've never managed to replace on CD or MP3); The Sundays are one of those bands - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic