I’m reading a book by Nancy Duarte called “Resonate.” You may remember that I mentioned her in my Catalyst post last week. She gave a short talk on the “shape” of a great presentation, and this book is so good, yall. It’s all about how to build effective presentations that resonate with the audience. In the first few pages, she...

Remember that time I told you me and some friends were gonna do a podcast called The Courtesy Laugh? Well, we did. We’ve released three episodes, and from what we can tell, some people kinda like it. Which is cool, because it’s just four dummies talking about movies and the internet and Ryan Gosling. Well, apparently enough people liked it and downloaded...

Heads up: This is the longest post I’ve ever written. Just thought you should know going into it… Catalyst is a conference about church leadership. It’s slickly produced, well attended, and the content is FAN. TAS. TIC. I started attending when there was just one conference each year, in Atlanta, but now they also have Catalyst West in Orange...

(If you get the reference in this post’s title, you get +5 on your next test.) Here are some streaming thoughts from my head because there’s a lot going on up there, and I don’t really have time to sort through it all today. Today, Liz and I celebrate seven years of marriage. Hooray for commitment! I know that a lot of people like to say, “I...