@andyrowell.bsky.social
Ministry Leadership professor at Bethel Seminary. Learner. Former coach. Three kids in high school and college. Wife pastors at City Church in Minneapolis. andyrowell.net
"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Can't find the full statement in your article or googling.
13.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The good thing about social media, podcasts, and YouTube is that you realize you're not alone about a thoughtful idea. I mean that sincerely. I meet people in real life who say "No one speaks up about this!" And I'm like, "What? Tons of people say that."
10.02.2026 02:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delightful. Thanks for the update. I too have students doing video responses. (My mechanical engineering major son Ryan was thinking about your non-canonical gospels with a couple friends but is taking robotics elective instead).
03.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New 1 hour lecture I recorded today:
Nehemiah: Good Leadership in Response to Destruction
youtu.be/z3FZIzrsbhE
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
24.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 29 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 5
You would like @pedalingpastor.bsky.social
22.01.2026 04:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
See also:
youtu.be/DMrWADE2SzE?...
Local media here trying to get to the bottom of the same questions I was asking.
youtu.be/vvmbiaBZ5_Y?...
Minneapolis city ranking of all U.S. cities:
#2 happiest
#2 biking
#3 parks
#6 fittest
A solid history of Minnesota here.
"Trump’s Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration. The state embodies a civic ideal that the administration in Washington wants to discredit."
Jan 16, 2026.
By Charles Homans
Free gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/m...
Superb sophisticated moral reflection on AI drawing on the book of Genesis.
"What Is The "Divine Image" in the Age of AI?"
Rav Soloveitchik's Tale of Two Adams
Second Voice and Zohar Atkins
Dec 16, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/secondvo...
Neighbor families caring for a grieving family in 2025.
Free to read.
www.startribune.com/a-minneapoli...
Your must-read of the day (with tissues):
In the months since Fletcher was fatally shot during at Annunciation Catholic School, the Merkels have clung to everyday relics of their second child’s brief, full life.
Whatever they’re feeling, they’ve learned how large their village has become.
And further, yes, the primary trait needed for leadership is character and competence. So it is not in the best interests of an organization to make it easy to wield power. But often the hoops to jump through are more culturally-narrow than they need to be, repelling good people.
27.12.2025 00:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And yes, younger people and outsiders from a different culture for their part, if they are interested in leadership, need to look past the superficial barriers (food, clothing, formality of meetings, communication methods) and assume they are not being intentionally excluded.
26.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"We send out all information through email. No, we will not correspond with that younger person through text! No GroupMe! No Slack! No Discord! No Instagram! No Google Docs! I don't know why they don't attend."
26.12.2025 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"We're a bunch of retired people who don't allow comments or questions about anything not on the agenda sent ahead of time and run meetings in a very formal way because it is the right way to run meetings. Why don't young people or people from other cultures want to be on our board?"
26.12.2025 23:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is a crude way of getting at the issues, but I was thinking about passages in the Pauline letters (1 Corinthians 9-11, Galatians 3) and how to be proactively inclusive rather than allow superficial issues (business clothes, Robert's Rules of Order) to intimidate outsiders.
26.12.2025 22:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0A pastor can't find younger leaders for the church board. I wondered about the culture. "My kids like Chipotle burritos, zero sugar A&W Root Beer and Cream Soda, Takis, Scandinavian Swimmers gummy candy, and brownies. Would your age 65+ board be open to meetings with those?"
26.12.2025 22:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Excellent tribute to Dan Treier
24.12.2025 19:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fun defense here of audiobooks.
Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
“We’re not Jewish,” Brady said when I asked him about this. “But I think we’re into everything. . . . I don’t know what I believe. I think there’s a belief system, I’m just not sure what it is.” www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/m... January 2015. Gift article.
22.12.2025 02:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Aviv, Rachel. “Mind over Matter: Did the celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks write his patients into case studies of his own psyche?” New Yorker 101, no. 40 (Dec 15, 2025): 28–39.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"Sacks established empathy as a quality every good doctor should possess, enshrining the ideal through his stories ... [But] His approach set the template for a branch of writing and thinking that made it seem as if the natural arc of illness involved insight and revelation."
21.12.2025 03:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"adult world-class performance is associated with limited discipline-specific practice, increased multidisciplinary practice, and gradual early progress."
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" (18 Dec 2025).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Proud to have learned from and admired Jeff Thorne since high school. Preparation, multiple sports, research, class, integrity, character, leadership. Always in the best sense, a captain. Here is a gift link to the Chicago Tribune article about him.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/f...
