leadership
NZ Soccer has started a new magazine. It is called Goal! It is pitched at girls and boys. 12 glossy pages. Plenty of colour and images. No more than a few lines of words at any one time. Cartoon characters Zac and Lisa adorn almost every page. There are interactive quizzes and crosswords and ‘spot…
READ MOREThe lesses and mores on the subject of leadership continue…It involves less strategic thinking than I expectedThose five year ‘blueprints’ of the future in which goals and objectives are endlessly described with dotted ‘i’s and crossed ‘t’s haven’t featured as much as I thought they would. Sure, there are Business Plans, Staffing Plans etc that…
READ MOREThe summer break is just days away. I am reading heaps of stuff on leadership in preparation for a DMin course on Leadership in March. And I am about to step into my 10th year as Principal of Carey Baptist College. So I find myself in a pensive, reflective mode just at the moment. I…
READ MOREIt is such an apt image: ‘fallen’ … stumbling, grazing, bruising, hurting, slipping. The ‘evangelical’ world in the USA has been shocked in this past week by the fall of one of its leaders(Ted Haggard). It is tragic – particularly for his wife and his children. The last time this happened with someone of such…
READ MORETwo passions kinda animate me. One is biblical exposition with texts like gospel and epistle and prophecy. The other is cultural exposition with texts like advertisement and lyric and movie. Take movies for example… If I was a (youth) pastor I’d organise a retreat for the leadership team in which we watch a double feature…
READ MOREWe are in the middle of the evaluation season at Carey Baptist College. All 30 of the students in our Pastoral Leadership track journey through an annual process which probes for both critique and affirmation. As Principal I have been committed to participating in every single one. It is just exhausting… Reflecting on the written…
READ MOREOur Maori queen, Dame Te Ata, died yesterday. Deeply loved and widely respected… In one of the tributes I heard this morning it was said that she was “a leader who followed her people.” What an intriguing comment. It has been distracting me all morning. I wonder what it means… nice chatting Paul
READ MOREAbout Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.