http://www.fastcompany.com/online/05/changetips.html

In industry, they're a positive force, supposedly. Chris Turner gives nine tips for change agents. Can you find any parallels, positive or negative, in spiritual change agents?

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Okay, I took the first sentence from each point given in the linked article. Here's what I came up with.

1. Be open to data at the start. A closed mind is the first sign of a fuddy-duddy, a hide-bound Bible banger.

2. Network like crazy. The more people you can get in on your project to stir things up, the better.

3. Document your own learning. Just don't be to specific, learn to hedge, to redefine. Watch out for people who want to pin you down on doctrine.

4. Take senior management along. The more elders, deacons, and preachers you can win over, the further you'll go.

5. No fear! Remember, the great majority, though silent, are with you.

6. Be a learning person yourself. But never let the biblical evidence sway you away from your certainty that it's mostly opinion, anyway.

7. Laugh when it hurts. But it's better if you can laugh when the other side hurts.

8. Know the business before you try to change anything. Know who's close to whom, who the main figures are, how to weasle your way into the power structure.

9. Finish what you start. Rome wasn't built in a day, so you won't get the old fogeys to move quickly. Slow and steady will bring you success.

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2003/mar03/03-03-26.shtml

I'm usually the last to hear thing, my news is old as the first war against Iraq. But I couldn't pass this up: Coed dorms are old hat, but a Connecticut university has The Naked Dorm which, according to Phyllis Schlafly, "advertises itself as a diverse, multicultural, political active dormitory for men and women where clothing is 'optional.'"

Oh, the institution of higher learning? Wesleyan University. As in John Wesley of the Methodists.

Lots of people need to pay attention to this word by Larry Burkett:

Sometimes Christians seem to believe that God will bless them supernaturally, while they ignore every pretense of good management. If you believe that, you haven't studied God's Word very thoroughly. God's Word directs us to think and plan.

http://pathtorome.com

"Path to Rome – The only conference of famous converts to the Catholic Church!"

The Pentecostals have done this for ages, parading all the famous people in their midst as an evangelistic method. Now the Catholics have a special venue to let their rich and famous shine to attract more converts and make their followers feel special.

Somehow, somehow, it's one more item that doesn't jive well with the original faith as the Lord established it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,84455,00.html

"'People have told us they decorated a light out of Peeps. People have Peeps collections. Someone has a box of them from every year for the last 16 years that he keeps in his living room,' said Easterly who insisted that her last name only coincidentally coincides with Peeps' busiest season."

I tried not to look at who the author of this bad sentence was.