"Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no " - John Perry Barlow Mark Morford is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. In his latest piece, he imagines a glorious "green in every way" future for the Golden State.Pot is, by a huge ...

My dear friend and brother, Robert Odle, has written an excellent post that every committed Christian ought to read, digest and act upon.  You will find it here. Shall we seek to do what Jesus commanded, or shall we continue to be distracted by things he never mentioned or modeled?  Do yourself a ...

Editor's note: Jerry Ketel is one of Portland's leading figures in the agency business. He runs a firm with his name on the door and he's President of the Portland Ad Fed. Recently, Ketel attended a class that moved him. Here's his account. Instead of navel gazing, maybe it's time to rebrand yoursel...

Bill Taylor, co-author of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win with Polly LaBarre, reminds us that tough economic times are also times of innovation.Don't let risky times dull your appetite for taking risk. More then ever, companies and their leaders have to offer a positiv...

Leonardo da Vinci was a change agent. You probably know it already, it's worth repeating. At the time of birth, you are endowed with the same potential he had. Today, we need more than genius to make things happen though. We need collaboration and co-creation at the highest levels. In the conceptual...

What Is the Jesus Method? The religious community is getting a bad, but deserved, rap. We are known more for cursing the darkness than lighting a candle. Evangelicals have been writing books about the “end times� that attempt to scare the wax out people. They’ve been predicting doom and gloom ...

With the announcement that Hillary Clinton is abandoning her quest for the Oval Office the Democrat National Committee (DNC) – and specifically the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee – has effectively selected the candidate for their party. I say selected because, by construct, the decision maki...

Like it or not, the reality is that we live in an extremely self-centered society. If you take issue with this statement just watch how pedestrians enter into crosswalks during rush hour. Ignoring that pedestrians only have the right of way when they are within the crosswalk, today’s bipeds don’...

People, the news media and pundits like to throw around the word “crisis.� The mainstream media and their ilk tell us that we are currently experiencing a crisis in the sub-prime mortgage market, an economic crisis, a crisis with the environment, a crisis in race relations and with oil prices. T...

A lot of people are turned off by “church.� My premise for this article is that people are repulsed not by the church, but by something else that bears that name but is not the genuine article. Let’s start off with a few basics. First of all, the word “church� is a wimpy translation of ano...