Posted on 06 April 2009 by David Phillips
In this edition of MORPH, David thinks about what needs to be discussed to begin to intersect the USAmerican South – a culture that is Christian though so many are not Christ Followers – with the true and faithful Gospel of Christ.
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Posted on 19 February 2009 by David Phillips
Posted on 13 February 2009 by David Phillips
After a long layoff for the holidays and dissertation writing, David returns with this week’s MORPHE. Today David looks at how Modernity deconstructs the stories – the narrative – of scripture to create its own narrative. However, the Mega-Narrative of Christianity – namely the Kingdom of God – should subsume this and other (meta)narratives.
Posted on 09 January 2009 by David Phillips
In this edition of MORPHE, David speaks with Caleb Crider. Caleb is a missionary with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Previously serving in Spain, Caleb now works to mobilize churches to come to Europe and plant churches and engage culture. He is part of The Upstream Collective.
David and Caleb discuss ministry in a post-Christian Europe and how that might find its way to the United States.
Posted on 13 December 2008 by David Phillips
The Medici Effect
This is the full 50 minute video that Todd Littleton and I did discussing the book by Frans Johansson entitled Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation. Here is some information about the book:
What do termites and architecture have in common?
Music records and airlines?
And what does any of this have to do with
health-care, card-games or cooking ?
Most of us would assume nothing. But out of each of these seemingly random combinations have come groundbreaking ideas that have created whole new fields. In his bestselling book, Frans Johansson takes us on a fascinating journey to the Intersection: a place where ideas from different industries and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary new innovations.
Johansson calls this proliferation of new ideas “the Medici effect”—referring to the remarkable burst of creativity enabled by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy. In this fascinating book, he reveals how we can find intersections in our own lives and turn the ideas we find there into pathbreaking innovations. Johansson explains that three driving forces—the movement of people, the convergence of scientific disciplines, and the leap in computational power—are increasing the number and types of intersections we can access.
In addition we discuss how Godin’s Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us intersects the Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation, and how both intersect theology.
I will also be putting up 8-10 minute snippets over the next two weeks.
