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We All Need Friends
There is an interesting article in the Telegraph and in the American USA Today about a study done in the states that suggests that religious people are more friendly than non-religious people. According to the study’s findings: religious people are more likely to be charitable than Athiests. Indeed a surprising finding is that they are [...]
Hopping & Zapping: The Numbers Don’t Add Up
We’ve talked about the “numbers game” in relation to notions of “success” in ministry (here). There is however, another branch of this “game” which we often bemoan, and joke about behind the closed doors in OC/IC circles; but rarely, constructively, in the open. For lack of a better term I’ll call this “High-speed Zapping”. High-speed [...]
I Call You Friend . . .
Throughout my 20 years of active OC/IC life I’ve encountered dozens of attempts by individuals and groups to forge a unified OC/IC (now ISM) “body”; particularly in the US. Every one of them fails miserably, and – at least in those cases I’ve closely observed – creates more division, and at least three more “synods” [...]