Best Books of the First Quarter
A friend asked what have been the best books of the first quarter of 2016. I’ve read about three dozen this year and after looking through the list it was easy to spot what I thought were…
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Pirate Hunters
This isn’t a long review of the book Pirate Hunters, by Robert Kurson, but I wanted to post a strong recommendation for this modern day adventure story. It caught my attention because of my love for Belize (a…
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Driven by Difference, by David Livermore
Years ago I was given a little book by David Livermore about the importance of cultural understanding in short term missions. Since then I’ve read pretty much everything David has written, and his most recent…
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Create vs Copy, by Ken Wytsma
Several months ago my friend Ken Wytsma asked me to comment on a book he was writing. He sent the pdf version and it surprised me to learn the topic was on creativity. Not that…
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Resource Allocation – A Review of “The Outsiders” by William Thorndike
If you are in leadership then you probably spend time thinking about resource allocation. To simplify that phrase, you probably have had to decide where to focus your energy, talent, and capital. This is true…
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Exploding Wine Bottle
A friend of mine, Pam, is a bright person seeking to solve many of the challenges of our era. She’s doing good work for the right reasons in a graceful way. Pam was visiting my daughter and…
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My Favorite Books of 2015
This isn’t a “best books” list because, obviously, I didn’t read all the books published in 2015. But it is a collection of my favorite books from the over one hundred I read this year. Hopefully it…
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Roadmap to Reconciliation
My friend Brenda Salter-McNeil is a blessing to me and D’Aun. So it is a joy to announce her new book, Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice. I loved this book so…
