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We need these words of thanksgiving and conviction.
Tears don’t easily come to my eyes, but the few minutes this 18 year-old North Korean girl took to tell her story–of her faith, her sufferings, her country, and her hopes–made me and thousands of others cry at Cape Town 2010. The video has now been released to the public. This Thanksgiving weekend I am
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Reading and Spiritual Leadership
On November 11, Leadership Network is hosting a live, online event on the topic of Leaders & Readers. Six authors will share their thoughts on the role that reading has played in their leadership experiences, drawing content from their latest books–and you can join in with Q & A. (I was glad to work with
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Vitality the Story?
It will take some time for everyone to get some perspective on what happened in Cape Town, South Africa, this past week when 4,200 Christian leaders from 198 countries gathered to talk about the mission of the church today. As Lindsay Brown, the International Director of the Lausanne Movement said in his closing address Sunday
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Thoughts from Cape Town 2010
Thursday and Friday at Cape Town 2010 have thus far included some memorable ideas, facts, and quotes: One third of the people on the planet are under aged 15. “When we freeze water, we make ice cubes. When God freezes water, he makes snowflakes–each one different.” – Vaughn Roberts “Globalization is the greatest challenge to
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One body, many parts
We are at the midpoint of Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, and I’m trying to think about how to summarize what has happened here in the past three and a half days. Here is the big picture: the church of Christ around the world is so big, so wide, and
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Disappointment with China
Today the World Evangelical Alliance issued this statement of disappointment with China. News Release October 17, 2010 The WEA is very disappointed over the absence of the Christian Delegation from China at the Third Lausanne Congress As 4,500 participants from around the world gather together for the Third Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, the World
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Pentecost with Roller Luggage
When I was in the registration area of the hall where the participants for Cape Town 2010 were gathering earlier today, the cultural and national diversity of the crowd gathering was truly stunning. Faces of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America; the language of one conversation blending into the conversation of the one next;
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Good Hope
The whole world apparently loves a rescue story. Hundreds of millions saw at least some coverage of the salvation of thirty-three miners from a tomb a half-mile underground in Chile yesterday. I caught as much coverage as I could, marveling every time the metal capsule was opened for a man to be resurrected from a
Camp Hope
It is a nightmare one can hardly imagine. Buried alive, half a mile beneath the surface of the earth, thirty-three miners in the country of Chile have been trapped for the past 66 days. Day after day. Week after week. They knew it would be this long or longer. But as rescue efforts to bring
Evangelization is a funny word
For those of you wondering what the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is (especially that last word), go ahead and substitute “witness.” It is not that “evangelization” is a meaningless word. It comes from medieval ecclesiastical Latin evangelizare, which means to spread the gospel (evangel in the New Testament). But if the “-ization” part
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Great ideas don’t necessarily pop into people’s heads
Steven Berlin Johnson (author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, due out tomorrow) recently gave a talk at TED on the amazing power of networks. His thesis is that most of the great breakthrough ideas in history were not instances of individuals having epiphanies, but of those people being well-connected
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Come with me
Come with me to Cape Town. Seriously. In one week I leave for Cape Town, South Africa to be part of a historic event: the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. And I’d like to take you with me. I want to be your eyes and ears through frequent postings on Facebook, Twitter, The Brook Letter (email),
What Group is Most Knowledgeable About Religion?
American students are at the top rank of confidence in their academic abilities, even though more than 20 other countries rank higher in actual academic ability. Now it turns out, according to a study done by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, that though America is one of the most “religious” nations in
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Scandal behind scandal
The news coming out of Atlanta last week that one of the most influential church leaders in the country, Bishop Eddie Long of Atlanta, had been accused by four young men of sexual impropriety is tragic and all-too-common. After the Ted Haggard scandal and scores of others before him, we grow calloused to such news.
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