Archive | Orgs and Movements

12 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Starting a Movement

Matt Green shared this with me. It’s a must see for anybody who studies movements. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/fW8amMCVAJQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

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02 March 2009 ~ 22 Comments

Echso-Text: 22 Christian Families Executed in Afghanistan

I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and he was [...]

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24 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Podcast Shownotes – Movements

World Christian Podcast – Click here to listen RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS and ACORNS (Note: This material is largely based on the work of Gerlach and Hines, cited at the end of this article.) Something that fascinates many people is the idea of movements and how they form, and how they are generated; in fact, I’ve decided [...]

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21 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Laotian People Movement

The following text is from a newsletter I received last week from an indigenous Thai ministry. This ministry is reaching out across the border in Laos. The media and Hollywood actors are portraying Buddhism as a peaceful, loving religion. The persecution noted below is a direct result of Buddhist adherents. It is important to note [...]

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16 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Creative Teams

Sometimes you need to accomplish a job and you can’t do it with the usual list of suspects. These are tasks that require artistry and sophistication, not just brute, managerial force. Such was the case a few years ago when I was tasked with managing a team that would create a video resource that would [...]

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