Why We Need to Maintain Perspective

Why We Need to Maintain Perspective

I was sitting in a class with J. Robert “Bobby” Clinton years ago, dealing with life-long leadership realities.  His seminal statement was this:  “The difference between leaders and followers is perspective.  And the difference between great leaders and leaders in...
Reframing the Problem

Reframing the Problem

In the mid-1980s, I was approached by Carl George, who at the time was Director of the Charles E. Fuller Institute of Church Growth and Evangelism. At the time, I was a professor in the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Carl was concerned...
Church Planting from a Female Perspective

Church Planting from a Female Perspective

Church planting has been in my bones for over thirty years, but I have been female for twice that amount of time. It is therefore quite natural that my analogies, metaphors and observations arise from my ascribed role as a woman—that they are things that are more...
Perspective Is Everything

Perspective Is Everything

I attended my cousin’s funeral last week. We’d been best friends as kids, but our lives had taken different paths and we’d lost contact. Her husband had died, her son had died and only one daughter (I’ll call her Mary) is still living. I’d spoken with my cousin in...