Writings

  • Why Don’t Students Like School?

    Why Don’t Students Like School?

    I’ve started in on Daniel Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School. The sub-line is more informative: “A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.” Here are some of the more fascinating insights I’ve gained thus far. I’m sharing them largely as tidbits for reflection rather than being…

  • The Death of the Good

    The Death of the Good

    Great video here from Prager on why modern art is so bad. But it applies to the question of truth in general. The loss of an objective aesthetic in art has led to a loss of the meaning of beauty, the celebration of the scatalogical, and the move, as he puts it in the video,…

  • Stop Trying to Lead and Start Making a Difference

    Stop Trying to Lead and Start Making a Difference

    Forbes ran a great blog article recently on 7 reasons why millennials fail to get promoted at work. You’ve got to go read it. Seriously. Especially if you are a millennial…or you have a job. I’m not going to rehash that list here, but the 7 reasons are spot on. They got me thinking of some…

  • Teaching Five Minds

    Teaching Five Minds

    Howard Gardner is the psychologist and educator who introduced the idea of multiple intelligences. More recently, Gardner has suggested five distinct mental abilities, or minds, that are important for educators to cultivate in order for students to be effective and successful in the globalized complex world of the digital information age [1]. The first three minds are cognitive, the last two relational: The…

  • The Church and the World

    The Church and the World

    One error says that we should abandon the world and run away from it, and the other error says that we should on the world and run it.

  • Another excerpt from new Kenotic Leadership Book

    Another excerpt from new Kenotic Leadership Book

    Excerpts from my upcoming new book (Summer 2017), Kenotic Leadership and the Movement that Changed America (working title), that looks at the imitation of Christ in the life and leadership of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist church in America. (A condensed version of this subject is covered my chapter “The Leadership of Francis Asbury” in Leadership the Wesleyan…