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This article was first published inWord & Deed: A Journal of Salvation Army Theology & Ministry, vol. 28, no. 2 (May 2026), pp. 53–58. It is reproduced here in the author’s manuscript version. The originally published issue is available online.
Introduction: Beyond Structure, Toward Post...
I was doing really well with my running last year. Most weeks I was out 4-5 times and I was fitter than I’d been for years. I was on track for a new PB for 10K in January and have even signed up for my first half marathon in May 2026.
...This month it is 25 years since I had my first real article published. Not surprisingly, it was an introduction of Natural Church Development (NCD) which was still a fairly new concept at the time. Since then a lot has changed, not just me, but certainly also NCD - one might say there has been a lot...
There is a lot of talk of strategy these days and we will undoubtedly hear more about this in the time to come. Maybe it therefore is good to remind ourselves, that strategies are not the main thing. They are meant to help us to do and to achieve the main thing – that is what makes strategies import...
Do you control people or hold them accountable?
A while ago, I was writing some notes on how to move away from top-down hierarchy without ending up in anarchy. When later reviewing the notes, I found the sentence “Low control - High Accountability”. Honestly, that sounds quite good, at least in my e...