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Book Review: EQ 2.0

If you read Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover and asked yourself, “Well, now what?”, then Lee Eisenberg’s The Number is your ‘now what’. If you rushed out and read Boundaries after my compelling literary review and thought,  “Great- now what?” Then EQ 2.0 by Bradberry and Greaves is your ‘now what’. Read the rest of this entry »

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Book Review: Jesus Wants To Save Christians

Jesus Wants t0 Save Christians, Rob Bell & Don Golden

I am behind on my reviews… or maybe i finished this book last night. Hard to say… Read the rest of this entry »

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For the Weekend…

Here’s a little light reading from Brad Sargent- link here. Especially appreciated the centric/bordered distinction.

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Theology, church

Teaser: The Future of Christianity

Ken Wilber has been on the blogroll here since day one… or so. I think it took a few days to get the blogroll up to speed. It may have been day three or four.  Anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

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Invisible Success

“Success each day must be judged in the seed sown, not in the harvest reaped.” -John Maxwell Read the rest of this entry »

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Triggers, Buttons and Switches

One of the post-it notes at my desk reminds me to redirect and relearn. Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under: Attitude, Integral, Leadership, Psychology

Truth is not a good idea.

Christians and philosophers alike have treated truth as a good idea- as something to be attained. A mental enlightenment. Postmodernism, of course, rejects this idea of truth- of absolute truth, specifically- and for good reason. Truth, as knowledge, is the scholar’s god- but not much good for the rest of us. Postmodernity, by rejecting the compartmentalization of life, helps us see the flaws of this pursuit of truth.

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Compartments.

Life, as rediscovered, is not made of separate, autonomous pieces. Life is an integrated existence of descernable aspects. Thanks to modernity, we have gone on thinking that life is safely compartmentalized; that our life is made up of vaccum-sealed, water-tight compartments we can attend to individually and that we control the flow between them. Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Pomo, Postmodernism, Theology

Strength Quote: Deliberative

"It is generally agreed that the ultimate purpose of any thinking must be the satisfaction of the thinker.So in the end the purpose of thinking is to satisfy the expressed emotions." -Edward DeBono