Why Strategic Planning is Important
While it may seem an obvious statement, strategic planning is an incredibly important part of leading teams and long term projects. It’s an item, I’ve observed, that many organizations seem to treat almost as an afterthought. A team develops a rationale in order to submit a budget and believe that to be planning. To a…
What Do I Do When I Feel Like God’s Not There?
It is normal in this trouble-filled world to sometimes feel that God is not there, that God is asleep, or that God is distant. What do you do in these situations? First of all, you are not alone. One of the best things you can do is to share with other people. Ask, “Do you…
Faith, Learning, and Character: An Historical Exemplar
Dr. Charles Hodge (1797-1878), principal at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1851-1878, was one of the first evangelicals to go to battle against the naturalism inherent in Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Although the Civil War preoccupied American thinkers and commentators in the years immediately following the publishing of Darwin’s book in 1859, academic debate began…