Listen to “Fifty Ways To Leave” by Fred Smith When I began writing this blog almost eight years ago, John Kelly was my editor. He told me, “Don’t worry about being relevant or [...]
Listen to “I Stand Relieved” By Fred Smith Almost ten years ago, the Board of The Gathering and I started thinking about succession. Clearly, we did not consider it an [...]
Listen to “Crossing The Line” by Fred Smith One of the most pronounced trends in the non-profit world in the last ten years has been the number of men and women in business [...]
Listen to “The Passing Of The Hero” by Fred Smith Oswald Chambers wrote “Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the passing of the hero. It is not wrong for [...]
Listen to “All Things In Common” By Fred Smith I posted an article on the shrinking of the middle class as an increasing number of people are falling into the category of [...]
Listen to “Double Fault” by Fred Smith Nicky Gumbel, the Rector of Holy Trinity Brompton in London says, “Movements grow from the intersection of a personal story and [...]
Listen to “What Is In Your Hand?” by Fred Smith Since childhood, I have read the story of Moses at the burning bush and his reluctance in returning to Egypt and bringing the [...]
Listen to “Monks and Money” by Fred Smith One of my treasures is a framed picture of Peter Drucker, Bob Buford, Tom Luce and myself outside Peter’s house in Estes Park in the [...]
Listen to “Grand Central” by Fred Smith Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… W.B. Yeats “The Second Coming” is one of the [...]
Listen to “All That Is Hidden” by Fred Smith “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either [...]
