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Andy Rowell
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Ministry Leadership professor at @BethelSeminary. Wife pastors at City Church in Minneapolis. https://t.co/h2D6tgA8DM , https://t.co/2agCsDtPH9
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Jan 9 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
"Leadership" is often an incoherent field of study. Often it's anecdotal. "Here's what I did to ... win the game ... make a lot of money ... win the war ... win an election."
But below I sketch a few conceptual foundations of Leadership and note their practical value. 👇 Properly, Leadership is a subdiscipline of Ethics (how to live well), which is a subdiscipline of Philosophy.
Jun 21, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Oh wow. Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse (a "non-profit organization") made $224,339,099 in 2020 in profit (Revenue less expenses"). $224 million. Number of independent members of the board at Samaritan's Purse. 9 of 16 in 2020. They lost 3 independent members and added another family member since the previous year in 2019.
Feb 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
- 79% of Americans are comfortable with a female pastor, but only 39% of evangelicals.
- 72.8% of evangelicals are fine with a woman preaching on Sunday morning.
- 3% of evangelical congregations and 30% of mainline congregations have a female senior pastor.

See sources below. According to a 2016 Barna survey,
79% of Americans would be comfortable with a female priest or pastor.
barna.com/research/ameri…
But only 39% of evangelicals would be.
Feb 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Thread of comments on books from 2019-2021 on women and Christianity. They are all worth reading.
Books on: famous women leaders, practical support for women, biblical description, history of masculine militarism, bad sex in Christian marriages, and the history of patriarchy. The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
October 1, 2019
by Kate Bowler @KatecBowler

History of prominent women leaders in American Christianity.
Feb 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
These pieces are revealing. For them, Christianity is using any means necessary to rally people to make America more like 1980's white Christianity. It is not humbly reading the Bible together so as to learn how to act like Jesus.
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They did in their youth read the Bible and became convinced about what it was saying to American culture. And now they are in a position of power to rally people to that. But did we stop reading the Bible afresh? Is Christian political coercion of non-Christians the right goal?
Jan 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Quick thread on the decline of church attendance.
Anecdotal evidence:
Apr 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I'm for good leadership of institutions and also pro-entrepreneurship. The New York Times vs. Substack is another example of these issues. I am also listening about how a newspaper Frederick Douglass founded after the Civil War struggled. And a bank founded for Black Americans had to close even though they made Douglass president as a last ditch effort to save it. Entrepreneurship is important but very hard.
Apr 12, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
No! Why?! So sad! Police officers, why are we killing people? This is extremely upsetting for people in Minneapolis - St. Paul. Like, have police officers learned nothing? This is terrible. ...
Apr 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
@DrAaronNew Three points:
- We should be slow to take justice into our own hands as David was in 1 Samuel 24. Romans 12:19 "vengeance is mine …. says the Lord".
- Paige Patterson was untrustworthy as a shepherd and so was removed from his position. @DrAaronNew If people want to read more, Paige Patterson writes the argument in the four views book "Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government" (Zondervan, 2004) for one pastor being in charge of a local church. The other three authors push back. Image
Apr 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I continue to think that reading history is the best preparation for wise leadership. You are struck by details, attitudes, and relationships; and it registers in your mind:
"*That* made a difference. Inspiring!"
Or, "Look at how that capable person made a mistake! Duly noted!" ...
Apr 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
As I feel more optimistic about many getting the vaccine and the covid relief bill helping the poor in the US, I am reminded that there is injustice, suffering, and danger elsewhere: Myanmar, Belarus, Yemen, Ukraine, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and North Korea. God help us. 1. I'm reminded to pray because it is overwhelming.
2. I appreciate experts keeping us up to date about their sense of horror about these matters.
3. May the US leadership be wise.
4. Long-term, let's encourage people to live in other countries with generosity and curiosity.
Mar 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I have been thinking about how Jeff Immelt—who I remember being interviewed by Bill Hybels at the 2014 Global Leadership Summit (vimeo.com/128173175)—ended up not being a successful CEO of G.E. (). Do we listen to people prematurely? Or was he unlucky? "This person is successful! They are CEO of a large company! Learn about leadership from them!"

7 years later: "This person took their company into the ground. They had repeated poor judgment and execution and integrity! I would not trust what they have to say!"

Lesson here?
Jan 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Vyacheslav Volodin is who Franklin Graham met with in March 2019. He has been sanctioned by the US and EU since 2014 for the Ukraine invasion. Volodin spews lies—suggesting Germany poisoned Alexei Navalny and that those arrested for the Capitol violence are political prisoners. Image Franklin Graham said he believed Trump about Trump's questioning of the results of the election and then Graham said that the violence at the Capitol was from Antifa.
Jan 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
On why dieting and exercise and trying to look good and be fit and thin may not have as much to do with excellence as having a paunch, serving others, taking walks, and eating meals with people. I have been reading about diets and people trying to lose weight. Apparently almost any diet "works" the first two weeks if you haven't been eating carefully.
BUT then it is slow (and therefore harder to stay with).
AND regular bingeing on deprivation hurts your body long-term.
Jan 1, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Five thoughts on New Year's Resolutions:
1. There are so many good habits we could implement but there are too many for anyone to do all of them well. (See my list in the thread below). So we should be gracious with ourselves and others. 2. The vast majority of our resolutions get drowned out by the noise of life. Life defies discipline and clarity. Life defies planning and organization.
Dec 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Regarding the latest @CTmagazine cover story, christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/januar… my colleagues Jeannine Brown and Mark Strauss @BethelSeminary are on the NIV Bible translation committee. (Yes, Wayne Grudem taught undergraduates at @BethelU from 1977-1981, as did John Piper from 1974-1980). - Millard Erickson taught at @BethelSeminary from 1969-1984.
- Tom Schreiner also taught at Bethel Seminary from 1986-1997.
Dec 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
SBTS (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is in Louisville.

I wonder what these politically engaged SBTS professors have tweeted about Breonna Taylor.
- twitter.com/search?q=from%…
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- twitter.com/search?q=from%… September:
Dec 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
After finishing the helpful, and highly acclaimed, "Jesus and John Wayne" by @kkdumez, I'm thinking about the style of the book from a publishing perspective—what has made this book so successful? - It is brief and dense so it is efficient. That is, readers get a feeling that they are learning quickly. It has been diligently edited to be concise. It keeps the attention of the reader used to reading Twitter or watching YouTube or The Crown or listening to podcasts.
Dec 16, 2020 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
1. Ryan Burge argues that evangelical leaders have little influence on the political beliefs of the masses of evangelicals. I disagree. But evangelical leaders have generally not spoken out about politics, which has led to a vacuum that Fox News filled.

Thread 👇1/24 2. I love the work of Ryan Burge but I am not convinced that evangelical leaders do not influence the rank and file.
3. From the 2004-2020 exit polls, about 16-24% of white evangelicals voted for the Democratic presidential candidate. 74-81% voted for the Republican.
Nov 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
- This happened. See:
- Eric Metaxas is deceived and is deceiving others.
- He has cut off relationship with those who have tried to talk to him.
- At what point does this make Franklin Graham and Cissie Graham Lynch cringe?
- Surely publishers notice. Today President Trump was talking with Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano who put him on the phone with Eric Metaxas. Yesterday Mastriano tested positive for covid while meeting with Trump.
@JohnFea1
Nov 18, 2020 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
Thread of notes comparing the 990 tax forms of
- Samaritan's Purse (2019). CEO: Franklin Graham.
- World Vision (2018). CEO: Edgar Sandoval Sr., previously Rich Stearns.
- Compassion International (2018). CEO: Santiago "Jim" Mellado.
👇 Number of employees / total revenue / profit / net assets:
Samaritan's Purse: 3,305* / $734,112,873 / $44,985,504* / $701,956,825*
World Vision: 1,049 / $1,135,591,490* / $-13,516,839 / 193,274,099
Compassion: 1,196. / $953,223,395 / $20,603,361 / 268,592,542
* designates high. ImageImageImage