COMMENTARY

Clapham Institute Blog

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Got a Plan?

The decline in Americans describing themselves as evangelicals is larger than most evangelicals imagine. Do evangelical churches have a plan to address this?

More Wow

God is a sphere, which is a wow. But there’s more wow. We experience it in everyday life.

Wow

Does the Cartesian coordinate system explain the rise of religious “nones?” Maybe.

Rough-Hewn Lives

In explaining their destiny, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln both quoted the same line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.” They went through a lot of rough patches.

Sculpting A Life

Michelangelo said “every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” That’s a good way to imagine my life’s work.

Nothing Fails Like Success

At its peak, General Electric was the most valuable company in the U.S., worth nearly $600 billion in August 2000. Today it’s worth a tenth of that. What went wrong?

Scaling Systems Up And Down

Volunteer organizations such as Thread do great work. They also remind us of why we have to scale systems up and down.

Clogged Filters

Brain plasticity explains much of how we change our minds. Yet few over the age of 25 ever change their mind in significant ways. There are two ways to fix this.

Wrong Emphasis

Our political landscape is polarized because each party has a wrong emphasis. The correct one is found at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Platonic

Live-streaming church is increasingly popular. But it doesn’t offer the one thing you can’t experience online. And that’s a big loss.