Tag: Culture
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The Culture of Blur
According to the Washington Post, On April 15, 2015, Sweden will add a gender-neutral pronoun to its official dictionary . That pronoun is “hen.” It turns out that the Swedish pronoun for males is “han” and for females is “hon.” So, while it’s unfortunate that it sounds like the english word for a female chicken, […]
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Sundays – a stunning short film
Mischa Rozema released his stunning 14-minute science fiction short film last Monday and created a three-studio bidding war between Warner, Sony, and Fox. By Friday Rozema had closed a deal with Warner. I find it visually compelling. This narrated short film has to me the feel of the Matrix, The Adjustment Bureau, and Inception. Enjoy […]
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Three Aspects of 21st Century Leadership
Leadership in the 21st century has three aspects: Fearlessly DEFINING Reality Mindfully DISCERNING the Meaning in the Mix Creatively DISCOVERING New Paths Forward In my new book, Makers of Fire, I layer this TRIAD of defining, discerning, and discovering on two others. The triangle of combustion and the triangle of social change. DEFINING | […]
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4 Trends for Churches to Consider
When I first saw Ed Stetzer’s original article titled, MissionTrends: 4 Trends for Churches to Consider, I had some points of difference. But I wasn’t sufficiently motivated to write about them because, overall, I think we should all think more about the future. But the article crossed my sights again in “Charisma News” post titled, […]
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Two Mysterious Human Behaviors
Every now and then we hear reports of whales stranding themselves on shore. Why they do this is a mystery. Moving from whales to humans, two human behaviors seem to me to be equally mysterious. First, the loss of a desire to have children. This is not too common but it is more and more […]
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Creativity, Spirituality, and the Future
Creativity is a clue that we are not locked into a purely predetermined system of cause and effect. While all human choice is preceded by causes and followed by effects, and the variety of choices may be limited, there is still room for surprise. I once asked someone if they believed God had the capacity […]
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Music – How Life Change in the Last Decade (7)
Where are the young finding their new music? iTunes? Pandora? Last.fm? MTV? Nope. The same place they’re watching videos: Youtube.
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140 – How Life Changed in The Last Decade (6)
Twitter is today what a blog was a decade ago. Before that …messages in a bottle?
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Netflix – How Life Changed in the Last Decade (5)
Dematerialization is a macro trend in the entertainment business. That’s why Blockbuster disappeared from that corner spot and we all started live streaming from services like these…
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Google – How Life Changed in the Last Decade (4)
If you can’t remember what we did before google, just google it.
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