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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." (Is.30:21)
Browsing All Posts published on »December, 2010«
‘I’m not done fighting’ | Notes & Review
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/06/why-michelle-rhee-isn-t-done-with-school-reform.html http://www.studentsfirst.org/ The following are some key quotes from the article: While I had to make many structural changes–overhauling the system for evaluating teachers and principals, adopting new reading and math programs, making sure textbooks got delivered on time–I believed the hardest thing would be changing the culture. As it is with any organization. Let’s […]
The Calling | Notes & Review
December 21, 2010
http://www.whatsyourcalling.org/the-film Available on iTunes. PBS Independent Films website. I began taking notes, and then realized about 15% of the way into the film, this is not a note taking kind of documentary. It’s a slower paced more sentimentally empathic documentary. While I expected more of a thoughtful engagement with the challenges, tensions, ideologies, theologies, cultures, etc., […]
Known
December 15, 2010
I posted Why Youth Are Devalued in American Culture on November 20, 2010 and have shared on this blog quite a bit about the value of youth. In the midst of education cuts, short-lived youth pastors in churches, and media’s commodification of our young, here is a refreshing testimony! I know there are hundred of thousands of […]
The Orthodox Heretic | Notes & Review
December 11, 2010
Peter Rollins. The Orthodox Heretic: And Other Impossible Tales. Paraclete Press, 2009 (184) http://peterrollins.net/index.html How to speak of something that cannot be said? (ix) Parables subvert this desire to make faith simple and understandable. They do not offer the reader clarity, for they refuse to be captured in the net of a single interpretation and […]
The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make | Notes & Review
December 9, 2010
Hans Finzel. The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make. David C. Cook, 2007. (224 pages) INTRODUCTION A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. (19) The good you do can be destroyed by the precautions you fail to take. (22) An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of good leadership. (22) […]
TED | William Ury: The Walk From “No” to “Yes”
December 3, 2010
Find The Eighteenth Camel There is this Middle Eastern story of a man who willed to his three sons his 17 camels. To the first son 1/2 of the camels, to the second son 1/3, and to the third son 1/9. 17 doesn’t divide by any of those numbers. Conflict arose, and they decided to […]
Race To Nowhere | Notes & Review
December 3, 2010
http://www.racetonowhere.com/ Some QUOTES and SENTIMENTS from the film: Many of the symptoms our kids are experiencing–headaches, stomachaches, depression, etc.–are stress-induced. Much of what we are doing in education is “de-humanizing.” “Some of the pressure is real.” Our systems have not adapted to the changing demographics. Much of the depression and anxiety that they feel in […]
On Becoming A Leader | Notes & Review
December 3, 2010
Warren Bennis. On Becoming A Leader. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989. (226 pages) If you’re not confused you don’t know what’s going on. …staying with the status quo is unacceptable… (xii) Introduction …the social world isn’t nearly as orderly as the physical world, nor is it as susceptible to rules. …people…are anything but uniform and anything […]
Trembling Before G-d | Notes & Review
December 2, 2010
http://www.filmsthatchangetheworld.com/site/ http://www.tremblingbeforeg-d.com/index2.html As with other independent films/documentaries (see http://vialogue.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/for-the-bible-tells-me-so-notes-review/), this one portrayed a variety of testimonies and stories of various LGBT people within Orthodox Jewish communities. As with other productions, the emotional humanity of the suffering is juxtaposed with the cold and seemingly heartless ideals of the conservative fundamentalists. Also, however, as with other productions, […]
December 23, 2010
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