I recently had some change management research published in the Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal 1–4. along with Dr. Wayne Graham. TITLE: Measuring organizational change impact: a discussion and model for planned organizational...
These 5 rules are slightly modified statements from Richard Rohr and can be found in his book Adam’s Return. Download the PDF here => 5 Rules Life.PDF Don’t forget to check out my books. If this post and video resonated with you, you’ll love...
“Do you see words, like subtitles, over people’s heads when they talk?” A friend recently asked. “No.” I replied, wondering what she was talking about. “I do,” she said. “I just thought everyone did. I worked out it’s a thing called synesthesia. It’s a brain thing...
This morning, I was interviewed on ABC Radio, Sunshine Coast about mortality, chaplaincy, Death Cafes and my last book, Decenter Everything. 😁🙏 (The interview goes for 9 minutes)....
I am honoured and excited to be the keynote speaker at the Centre for Men & Families Australia annual gathering in Queensland this year. Last year, over 100 men from around Australia gathered. This year the organisers are expecting more attendees, with tickets...
I spent several hours this week interviewing small business owners for my doctoral research. I also started watching the Apple TV series Severance, a show that explores what it would be like if you came to work with no memories and feelings from your outside life and...
The CEO of the largest genAI company announces the new ChatGPT-5 will have PhD-level expertise. You are currently testing if ANY genAI model can review and assess a doctoral confirmation document; a standard task of most tenured (human) academics. ‘How lucky!’ You...
We need to move beyond thinking of ‘elders’ in terms of age. There are 35-year-olds with more emotional and spiritual maturity than 70-year-olds. It’s good to know the difference between ‘elders’ and ‘olders’. Becoming an ‘older’ is a default passive event....
We live with grief much more than we think. At times she arrives in our driveway with a screeching halt, slams her door so loud it echoes down the street, and bangs on the front door with just enough force to keep it from shattering. When she comes like this, we know...
When good, rational people try to make sense of the evil, irrational actions of others, they risk losing their own goodness. Endless finger-pointing can send good folk into a costly, fear-driven spin. When this happens, good people often make the mistake of trading...
Every December I work towards crafting a Christmas poem that pushes against the sanitised ‘Hallmark Christmas’ guff that fills envelopes and cliche’. Every year I return to the fragility and vulnerability of the incarnation and the chaotic commonness...
“The blessing is everyone’s birthright, not a reward!” I announced. Some truths are bittersweet; this is one of them.Years ago I was asked to run a workshop on Creating a Culture of Blessing for the teachers and staff at a Christian school. As we made our way...
People often ask me why I don’t subscribe to a violent, punitive and retributive version of God. I’ll tell you why. In 2010, just after my youngest was born, my wife enrolled me in a small group course on inner healing. She knew I needed it. The 48 Elijah House...
Over the years, I have had more than a few coffees and phone calls with local church pastors struggling with elements of their personal faith. People have confessed how incredibly torn they are inside because their make jobs make change incredibly difficult. Many felt...
Some more thoughts around metapastoring… I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok to ‘Create an image of a Pastor helping someone in grief.’ You can see the images attached. To be honest, I was glad they weren’t all middle-aged white guys. Gemini (owned by Google)...
I have been trying to put words to an emerging company of people I keep encountering. And in this short essay I will do my best to unpack some core thoughts around what I am witnessing, and daringly, give it a name – metapastoring. Many would shudder at the...
Well done on completing the assignment. Unfortunately, I see very few hints of humanity in the text. It lacks faults, fluctuations, and unfamiliar phrasing. Put simply, your submission is too flat. Too familiar. Too generated. And not really generative. Not generative...
Yes, I believe the Christian Church is ripe for a significant split (and it is AI-assisted). [ I appreciate from the outset that my Christian/religious peers and my AI-interested university/academic peers and may not fully ‘get’ this collision of thoughts,...
The hype and rhetoric behind the current AI boom feels very religious to me. I became a Christian in the 90s, as a teen. It was a decision I made for myself, but in retrospect, I can’t say the compelling catalyst was the unfailing love of God. At the time, there...
“Who is the wealthiest person here?” This is the question, Abraham Maslow, the researcher behind Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs asked those in the Blackfoot tribe in the 1930s. Maslow lived with this First Nations tribe for six weeks to see if his...
