Podcasts about good cities

How can workplace Christians be better equipped to transform their communities for the gospel?   In this episode of the Lausanne Movement podcast, we hear from Chuck Proudfit, Founder and President of SKILLSOURCE about "At Work On Purpose," a citywide workplace ministry model that mobilises the Church at Work.  Chuck shares his journey from corporate America to a faith-based mission that empowers Christians to live out their beliefs in the workplace and mobilises them to make tangible impact in their communities.   Main Points: Integrating Faith and Work: The challenges and triumphs of expressing faith in a secular work environment. Purposeful Employment and Vocational Discipleship: Understanding God's design for work and equipping Christians to be faith-active in their jobs. Workplace Engagement and Impact: Building a community of believers and creating a transformative impact in the workplace. Advice for Aspiring Network Builders: Steps to start and grow a network of Christians in the workplace. Engaging Church Pastors: Strategies for pastors to better support and equip workplace leaders within their congregations. After listening, subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and visit our website to join the movement of integrating faith and work. Share this episode with friends and colleagues to inspire them on their journey.   Links & Resources: At Work On Purpose - https://atworkonpurpose.org/  Agents of Flourishing by Amy Sherman - https://a.co/d/bET18G6 Biznistry: Transforming Lives Through Enterprise - https://a.co/d/h98A9wL  SKILLSOURCE - https://skillsource.com/    Guest Bio: Chuck Proudfit is the Founder and President of SKILLSOURCE®. With a rich corporate background from Procter & Gamble, Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery, and LensCrafters Corporation, Chuck brings extensive management experience. At Harvard University, he pioneered the undergraduate organisational development curriculum. Since its inception in 1995, SKILLSOURCE® has grown into a nationally recognized firm, known for its flexible, project-based talent assembly. The firm has earned numerous accolades, including a Torch Award for business ethics from the Better Business Bureau. Chuck serves on executive boards for Self Sustaining Enterprises, Nuway Foundation, and Good Cities. He co-founded NET (Neighbourhoods Embracing Transformation), is part of Transform Our World's Corporate Leadership Team, and is an Elder at Grace Chapel. He also teaches at the Great Oaks Institute and Cincinnati Christian University.   We'd love your feedback to help us to improve this podcast. Thank you!

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Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman answer your most pressing question: what are we to do? Drawing from their experiences in Chattanooga and Steubenville, they describe how small bets they made on city improvement have produced big results. Institutional barriers (bad city councils, HOA's, and local laws) can be an impediment to change, but there's still hope. Virtuous friends, with a passion for a better life, can revitalize even a decaying city. Welcome to the series finale of Good Cities!

The best of New Polity delivered to your door four times a year. Subscribe now and get 30% off all back issues https://newpolity.com/magazine Are we drowning in too much city plans? Or do we just have bad plans? Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman argue that good city planning can solve many of our issues. Although developers and "experts" have caused weird and unsustainable developments, they discuss how local cities can retake planning their city. On the docket: imperial zoning laws, detached property owners, transient residencies, automobiles (again), minimum parking laws, and encouraging organic area planning.

Should we flee to the Land or revitalize the City? Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how the battle between land and city is a false dichotomy. Each is dependent on the other and both are essential to renewal. They also discuss how the modern city has divorced these ways of life: making the land a commodity to extract resources and the modern city a scattered suburban sprawl. Also, the financial cost of these poorly planned cities has led to urban decay and flight to newer cities. But, there is a plan that the Church has for making cities beautiful and connecting with the land. Breezy paradisal reading delivered to your door 4 times a year. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine today and get 30% off all back issues. https://www.newpolity.com/magazine

In this episode of Good Cities, it's time to get mad at cars...again. Cars were promised to be freedom on wheels, but most people experience driving as forced upon them; monotonous, traffic-ridden, and expensive. Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how cars have made us slow, anxious, and separated from each other. Our cities once were bustling downtowns, and now they're a series of parking lots and crisscrossed highways. Also in this episode: what to do to remedy the impact of the car on cities and how to oppose the car for a better city. Welcome to Car Wars 2. Check out our magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine

It's time to get mad about cars. In this episode of Good Cities, Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman discuss how cars have reshaped the city. How did cars become necessary for life? How did the American government implement a car-centered society? How has the rise of suburbia impacted our cities? Welcome to Car Wars (...part 1)!

Welcome to our new series Good Cities! In this episode, engineers Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman describe the nature of the city. What is a city? Are cities places of sin? What is the purpose of the city? Is there a rivalry between farm and city? How have we built our cities in America? How can we make our cities better?

In this episode, GoodCities President, Glenn Barth interviews Brian Wilkinson, Director of Network Development for VIVA. Viva is an international NGO based in London that develops cross sector networks in cities around the world to care for vulnerable children. Viva is currently working with 38 networks in 27 nations transforming the lives of children and communities.

Here’s the eighth and final part of our series based on Reggie McNeal’s latest book, Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders who Turn the World Upside Down. Today’s podcast focuses on the practice of pain-tinged optimism. This practice is one that helps leaders deal with burnout and compassion fatigue that can easily drag a leader down. For leaders seeking to advance the kingdom, we need to build resilience into our lives so that we can lead effectively. In this eighth podcast, Reggie and Glenn Barth, President of GoodCities offer insights into how leaders develop a resilient approach to kingdom collaboration.

Today we continue our eight part series on Reggie McNeal’s latest book, Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders who Turn the World Upside Down. In this episode, GoodCities’ President Glenn Barth talks with our City Coach, Reggie McNeal about the Signature Practice of Kingdom Leaders who Call the Party!

Click  below to listen to the interview.   In this episode, we’re talking with Glenn Barth, president and CEO of Good Cities, a community development initiative that advances the gospel of the Kingdom by working with local leaders toward the common good of the city. The mission of Good Cities is to discover, support, and serve […]

Today we continue our eight part series in which GoodCities’ President, Glenn Barth interviews our City Coach, Reggie McNeal. This series is based on Reggie’s most recent book, Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders who Turn the World Upside Down. Today we are in the sixth podcast in this series and the focus is on the signature practice of kingdom leaders to “Curry Leadership Curiosity.”

In this series of episodes, Glenn Barth interviews author and City Coach, Reggie McNeal on the content of his recent book entitled, Kingdom Collaborators: 8 Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down. Today we focus on the fifth of those practices - Shaping a people-development culture.

In today’s podcast, the President of GoodCities, Glenn Barth is interviewing best selling author and the City Coach of GoodCities, Reggie McNeal. His latest book is Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders who Turn the World Upside Down. In this fourth in a series of eight podcasts, Glenn and Reggie talk about the practice of kingdom leaders who collaborate with God and others in their communities to marry vision with action.

In this series of episodes, Glenn Barth interviews author and City Coach, Reggie McNeal on the content of his recent book entitled, Kingdom Collaborators: 8 Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down. Today we focus on the third of those practices - Combining Social and Spiritual Entrepreneurship to Turn the World Upside Down.

In this series of episodes, Glenn Barth interviews author and City Coach, Reggie McNeal on the content of his recent book entitled, Kingdom Collaborators: 8 Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down. Today we focus on the second of those practices - disruption.

In this series of episodes, Glenn Barth interviews author and City Coach, Reggie McNeal on the content of his recent book entitled, Kingdom Collaborators: 8 Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down. Today we focus on the first of those practices - prayer.

Reggie McNeal is a City Coach with Good Cities and a senior fellow at Leadership Network. His book The Present Future was a game changer for a lot of people. He recently joined Good Cities as a City Coach.

In this episode, Reggie McNeal discusses “Working with Schools”. The number of partnerships between schools and faith groups has exploded over the past few years. Unfortunately, some have also imploded. Reggie details principles that should guide faith leaders as they pursue this important kingdom initiative.

In this episode, Reggie McNeal discusses “Raising Your Collaborative IQ”. Any city movement that achieves significant results requires collaboration among a variety of players.  However, collaboration does not come naturally; it has to be practiced. Reggie describes the key elements that leaders should know about collaborative cultures - how they work and how they are maintained.

In this episode, Reggie McNeal interviews Glenn Barth, President of GoodCities. Glenn discusses the first three stages of six in transformation movements in cities, as described in his book, The Good City. Those first three stages are Exploration, Formation and Operation.

Our guest this month is Reggie McNeal of GoodCities on the topic: "Flourishing Cities". Dr. Reggie McNeal enjoys helping people, leaders, and Christian organizations determine and experience epic wins with Kingdom impact. Prior to GoodCities, he served for ten years as the Missional Leadership Specialist for Leadership Network of Dallas, TX. Upon leaving, he was awarded the honorary position of Senior Fellow. Reggie’s role as City Coach with GoodCities accelerates his work with community leaders around the country to build cross-domain collaborative efforts that can move the needle on big societal issues. Reggie provides expert consultation for individuals and teams to become more missionally-focused and Kingdom-biased. Reggie has helped to shape the church leadership conversation through his work as an author.

Welcome to Episode 2 of Good Will Hunters, with Professor Paul James. Today on the show we discuss the United Nations Global Compact, why relocating “slums” is so difficult, what exactly makes a good city, why resiliency is a dangerous word, and the enormous potential of Antarctica for international cooperation, plus so much more. 2:22 - UN Global Compact 4:04 - Circles of Sustainability 5:34 - The Cities Program in the UN Global Compact 6:00 - How to relocate a “slum” and enable communities to flourish 8:10 - Why the “bulldozing technique” will not work 11:07 - What makes a good city? 13:45 - The Circles of Sustainability method 17:30 - Defining resilience 21:02 - Challenges for Port Moresby 23:50 - Steps in reinventing a city 25:30 - Participatory Budgeting 26:58 - Participatory development - strengths and challenges 33:10 - Can you fix a city that’s already been built? 37:00 - Embracing discomfort 40:42 - The enormous potential of Antarctica Royalty Free Music by Bensound

In this episode, Glenn Barth interviews Reggie McNeal, City Coach of GoodCities. The interview addresses the question of how the Church measures success. To shift to a Kingdom Agenda, Reggie advocates that churches shift the Story, the Scorecard, and Stewardship of the mission.

In this episode, Glenn Barth interviews Reggie McNeal, City Coach for GoodCities. Reggie discusses the four information revolutions. The Fourth Information Revolution brings with it mass customization and radical decentralization. He then lists the challenges and opportunities for the church that come with this time of massive change.

In this episode, Reggie McNeal interviews Glenn Barth, President of GoodCities. Glenn describes three missional epochs of the church through history as the point of encounter between the church and the world has changed. In our time, serving others together in cities where we live and work advances the Kingdom incarnationally.

In this episode, Author Reggie McNeal explores what it meant when Jesus established the Church in commissioning his Disciples. What we think of as the Church is very different from what Jesus had in mind when he demonstrated the Kingdom of God to his disciples and asked them to do the same for others. The early Church got it, where often the modern Church does not.

Glenn Barth interviews Reggie McNeal regarding "The Importance of Kingdom-centric Thinking in City Movements" The Kingdom of God is not there to serve the Church, but the Body of Christ exists to serve the Kingdom of God. As Christians, we tend to spend so much time focused on the Church and it’s issues that we neglect much of the work God is doing throughout the Earth to bring about His Kingdom. The history of the Church is full of division and fracturing and isolating us from them. We need to be focused on unity and inclusion and common ground which will allow us to serve and bring about the Kingdom of God in our communities.

Author and City Coach, Reggie McNeal interviews Good Cities founder, Glenn Barth to explore what Good Cities represents, why Glenn created Good Cities, and what is it's mission.

Glenn Barth and Good Cities have a vision to develop leaders who advance the gospel of the Kingdom and work toward the common good of the city. They define a good city as "a place where people find meaningful employment, create healthy families, live in safe neighborhoods, engage in and actively support creative arts, foster effective education, empower servant leadership in government, and live out their faith. In a good city, unjust systems are confronted and compassionate help is offered to those in need. It is a place where God’s redemptive plans are experienced by its citizens and sojourners. A good city offers the experience of God’s common grace, the opportunity to experience God’s salvation, and a future filled with hope." In this episode I talk to Glenn Barth about how leaders from every sector of the community can unite around the things we care about to make a collective impact in our cities. Glenn Barth and Reggie McNeal at Good Cities offer incredible resources to community leaders who desire to build good processes that can sustain a city movement. Be sure to visit Good Cites for more information. Listen in and to subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or at forourcity.us. Please add your comments. I would love to hear from you. Be sure to check out the sponsor for today's episode, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Wherever you're going, Southeastern can help you get there.

The Kingdom of God is about Life! Dr. Reggie McNeal enjoys helping people, leaders, and Christian organizations determine and experience epic wins with Kingdom impact. For the past ten years Reggie has served as the Missional Leadership Specialist for Leadership Network of Dallas, TX. In recognition of his work Leadership Network has awarded him the position of its first Senior Fellow. He also is on staff at Good Cities, serving in the role of City Coach. As City Coach Reggie works with community leaders around the country to build cross-domain collaborative efforts that can move the needle on big societal issues. Episode Takeaways The Kingdom of God is about life. Jesus invites us to join Him in His work. There are ulterior motives and ultimate motives. It's important to know the difference. The work of ministry is at the street level, where people live. It's about people learning to love God and love each other. Pastors and leaders make a greater Kingdom impact when we spend more time with people as they carry out their daily assignments. Three necessary changes in church work: Change the story...from church-centric to Kingdom-centric Change the scorecard...celebrate Kingdom wins Change the stewardship...resource for Kingdom impact One quote: "People accuse me of trying to abolish the clergy. I'm actually trying to abolish the laity."--Mike Frost Check out Reggie's latest book: Kingdom Come: Why We Must Give Up Our Obsession with Fixing the Church--and What We Should Do Instead, May 2015 Visit Reggie's website: reggiemcneal.org Visit Good Cities to learn how you can develop leaders who advance the Kingdom of God by serving the common good in your city.