by Eddie Pipkin Image by congerdesign from Pixabay When reading an article this week that contemplated which kinds of institutions do the best job of bringing rich Americans and poor Americans together in the same shared space, I thoroughly anticipated a shout-out to churches as a place to be celebrated for their egalitarianism. [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Pexels from Pixabay Football season is right around the corner, and I can’t wait. I love football, pro and college (go Knights!), and I will spend waaaaay too much time watching games between now and Christmas. Of course, I’m not so big a football nerd as to watch [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay I was cleaning up the good ol’ Honda CRV last week, when, lo and behold, I discovered a feature that I had never used before. We’ve owned this car for six years, and you’d think by now I would know the minutiae of its [...]
by Eddie Pipkin (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) Last week, at the conclusion of my “Misaligned Metrics” blog, I teased you with a reference to Excellence in Ministry Coaching’s new Leadership Skill Builders project. Your ministry teams are hard-working squads of people with different gifts, talents, passions, knowledge, and experiences, and when [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by FlitsArt from Pixabay Reading author and reporter Ann Helen Peterson’s Culture Study newsletter on Substack last week, my ears perked up when she got on a rant about her wearable fitness tracker. She loves her rants, AHP, as do we all! This one was about the ways in [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Peter Dargatz from Pixabay I was out for a sunrise run on the beach last week, when I found myself approaching another runner coming in my direction. It was one of those moments when I realized that, if nothing changed, we were on an intersecting trajectory. This sort [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, or you don’t do the ‘socials,’ or you don’t go to movies, you may have missed the media phenomenon which is happening this weekend called the Barbenheimer. On the same day, two highly anticipated but thematically [...]
By Eddie Pipkin Image by Dmitry Abramov from Pixabay I love reading about quirky phrases, so I was delighted when I came across this one sometime in the past few months -- I can't even remember where; surely in New Orleans when I was there for a weekend in December: "Lache pas a [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by -Rita-👩🍳 und 📷 mit ❤ from Pixabay I have a new neighbor. He and his girlfriend seem like the nicest couple. We took them some cookies; we liked them instantly. But this affable new guy has proven utterly inept at figuring out the culture of the cul-de-sac, the [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Marisa Sias from Pixabay I’ve been following the Major League Baseball number one performance by the Tampa Bay Rays this season (always the underdogs, those underfunded and underloved Rays, so always fun to watch). They started the year on a torrid pace, winning game after game, but as [...]
