Thursday's News & Ideas
Archbishop condemns bank excesses
BBC: The Archbishop of Canterbury says he fears financiers feel no "repentance" for the excesses which led to the economic collapse.
Only 1 in 3 churches spiritually 'vital,' study says
Associated Baptist Press: A congregation's health depends less on theology than methodology, according to a first look at the upcoming Faith Communities Today 2008 study.
Decoding leadership
Harvard Business blog: Senior executives come up with long lists of leadership “traits” – which may mean they don’t have a clue. Here’s five rules that get at the core of those lists.
Waiting for the end
Boston Globe: 100 years later, the Duxbury Convention is still watching and waiting for the world to end.
Pilgrims queue around cathedral as St Thérèse tour hits Portsmouth
The (London) Times: Not since the Reformation, and perhaps not even before then, has England seen a pilgrimage quite like this.
The (London) Telegraph: The relics and bones that bring us closer to God
The Spark
How a professor taught me to consult my stomach
Thirty years ago, as a new student at Williams College, NPR reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty was lucky enough to get in a Shakespeare class taught by the legendary professor Fred Stocking, a year before he retired. Encouraging her to make writing a career, he also shaped that career when she once asked him how he determines a student’s grades. "Well," he said, "I add up the grades for the essays, quizzes, the midterm and final. I average them out. Then I consult my stomach." “No three words have influenced — or haunted — me more,” Hagerty says.
News & Ideas Suggestion
Someone is doing a phenomenal job of collating stories for the Daily "News & Ideas" posts on the Call & Response blog. I'm concerned that not enough people are reading them. Hmm . . . I wonder if you might instead frame them like the more sensationally presented sites: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ or http://www.drudgereport.com/ or The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/
Hmm . . . I enjoy reading these three sites especially in my iGoogle reader.
Or I wonder if maybe you should put up these great links that you have found on Twitter like The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
http://twitter.com/cicw
or Emergent Village
http://twitter.com/EmergentVillage
Both highlight (as you are doing) stories online that will be of interest to their constituency.
In other words, put the six stories above as 6 tweets. So you will have six tweets per day. People will then see what you recommend and they will likely reply to you and RT (re-tweet) your tweets. I think all of this would be great and especially the twitter idea would triple your exposure. I'm happy to publicize it if you get on Twitter.
Andy Rowell
Th.D. Student
Duke Divinity School
Blog: Church Leadership Conversations http://www.andyrowell.net/
http://twitter.com/andyrowell
News & Ideas Suggestion
Thanks,Andy. Next week, in addition to the blog post, we'll start a "soft launch" of a daily News & Ideas email newsletter, with a formal launch to follow. Meanwhile, as we work on the final launch details, if you -- or anyone else -- want to receive the News & Ideas newsletter, sign up by emailing jrubio@div.duke.edu.
And we'll also be thinking about twitter.
thanks
ı can't do it.
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