Learning by Imitating

Learning by Imitating

In their book Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader, William J. Rothwell and Peter Chee talk about the importance of teaching by example (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2013, 95–120). They note that teaching by example, or modelling, has been around for a long time...
Becoming Who You Are

Becoming Who You Are

He was an orchidologist and a committed lay leader in his church. And while he understood the spiritual significance of his ministry in church he was never quite clear about the spiritual significance of his work with orchids, something he did well but I suspect with...
Angry Lesson

Angry Lesson

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are...
A Gollum Movie

A Gollum Movie

[Warning: Spoilers ahead. You may want to watch the movie The Hobbit (2012) before reading this.] You know The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) may be a movie in trouble when the character you find most “real” is a CGI character. All kudos to Andy Serkis who...