wadehodges.com Archives: August 2004

Problem Fixed

After several days of website frustration, everything seems to be back in order. My domain name has been renewed, email is functioning properly, and I can post from Blogger to my site.
Tomorrow we’re heading down to Austin for a few days to visit my sister, her husband, and the newest addition […]

Email Troubles

I’ve been having a some domain name/email troubles the past few days. If you’ve sent me an email and haven’t gotten a response, then you may want to try again.

A Failure of Nerve

I’m working through Edwin Friedman’s posthumously published “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix.” Friedman offers four similarities in the thinking and functioning of America’s families and institutions that he observed and believed to be at the heart of the problem of contemporary America’s orientation toward leadership:

1. A regressive counter-evolutionary […]

Building Credibility

We’re having a bonus room over our garage finished into an office for me (Project Codename: Wade’s Domain). My contractor left behind some sheetrock scraps that I need to throw away. I loaded them in my pick-up several days ago and still haven’t taken the time to dump them. I […]

Raising Boys at Chick-fil-A

Each Friday, I stay home with the boys while Heather goes to work. She enjoys being a Marriage and Family Therapist one day a week and I enjoy hanging with the boys. When Heather leaves the house her goal is to be of service to her clients. My goal is to make […]

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From Sojourners

Out of the Mess Comes . . .

From Peterson’s “Under the Unpredictable Plant:”
Mess is the precondition of creativity. The “tohu v’bohu” of Genesis 1:2. Chaos.
Creativity is not neat. It is not orderly. When we are being creative we don’t know what is going to happen next. When we are being creative a great deal of what we […]

Doh!

I keep checking google news and ruining my Olympic viewing for the evening. It really is more fun watching a race when you don’t know who is going to win. I know that’s not true eschatologically, but olympically it spoils the fun.

Oh Sanibel, Sanibel

Three weeks ago we were enjoying every minute of our vacation on Sanibel Island. Now it is a wreck. Our prayers are with all of the displaced folks in Southwest Florida.

An Interview with Tony Campolo

Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked:An Interview with Tony Campolo
It’s a common perception that evangelical Christians are conservative on issues like gay marriage, Islam, and womens roles. Is this the case?
Well, there’s a difference between evangelical and being a part of the Religious Right. A significant proportion of the evangelical community is part of the […]