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Stephen Shields is the founder of faithmaps.org, a Manager with USA TODAY, a consultant and freelance writer. Stephen serves on the Leadership Development Team of Grace Community Church just outside of Baltimore, MD, where he and his wife, Beth, also co-lead a ministry serving folks in Louisiana that survived Katrina and Rita called KatrinaGrace. Stephen received a M.Div from Grace Theological Seminary and lives with his wife and three daughters – Michaela Siobhan, Skye Teresa, and Alia Noelle – in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.

A list of most of Stephen’s published and unpublished articles can be found here and he can be contacted at sshields@faithmaps.org.


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  • what i’m reading


    - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
    - The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein
    - The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller
    - The Future of Justification: A Response to NT Wright by John Piper
    - The Tragedy of American Compassion by Martin Olasky
    - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and James K Harter
  • Recently Read


    - Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by HW Brand
    - Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency by Nigel Hamilton
  • Recent Posts

    • i’ve decided to go back to blogger
    • the buzz begins?
    • NT Wright and Bart Ehrman are Debating the Problem of Pain
    • JI Packer Leaves the Anglican Church of Canada
    • On the Post-Congregationals
  • Top Posts

    • Core Concepts from Jim Collins' Good to Great
    • Os Guinness Reviews Frank Schaeffer's Crazy for God
    • JI Packer Leaves the Anglican Church of Canada
    • Andrew Flew He now believes in God. Courtesy...
    • the return of rob schlapfer?
  • articles


    - What's a Faithmap?

    on leadership and healthy organizations

    - When the Church is its Own Worst Enemy
    - Leadership Formation and the Declining Cost of Information
    - A Leadership Primer
    - Characteristics of Outstanding Organizations
    - Christian Discipleship in Postmodernity
    - Dealing with Conflict
    - Meetings that Make a Difference
    - Moderating a Conflict Resolution Session
    - The Thinking of Peter Senge

    online relationships

    - Social Networking Tools and the Church

    the emerging church
    - Resonances with the Emerging Church
    - Are there Emerging Church Shibboleths?
    - Theological Disagreement and the Emerging Church
    - The Delights and Dangers of Navigating Postmodern Currents, Part 1
    - The Delights and Dangers of Navigating Postmodern Currents, Part 2
    - The Delights and Dangers of Navigating Postmodern Currents, Part 3
    - The Delights and Dangers of Navigating Postmodern Currents, Part 4
    - The Emerging Storm
    - The Post-Emerging Church
    - A Perspective on Postmodernism
    - A Word about Theology in Postmodernity


    multi-site churches
    - Tips for Multi-Site Church Leaders
    - 2007 Multi-Site Survey


    misc
    - Churches and Rescue Missions
    - The Da Vinci Code and a Hunger for Something More

    interviews
    - The Seven Questions Interview of Stephen Shields
    - Jordon Cooper Interview of Stephen Shields
    - Fred Peatross Interview of Stephen Shields
    - An Interview of Kevin Miller
    - An Interview of Scot McKnight
  • Notable

    - Intentionally Missional Communities
    - On Transpropositionality
    -A Conversation with Brian McLaren on Epistemology
    --Epistemology and Theology: Holistic Thinking
    The Simplicity of Despair
    -The Complete In the Foxhole Series
    -A Summary of "Learned Optimism"
    -"Abiding in the Vine" in the Johannine Literature
    -Balancing Social Justice and Gospel Concerns
    -Churches and Marketing
    -Do Blogs Democratize Knowledge, Part 1
    - Do Blogs Democratize Knowledge, Part 2
    - On Epistemology
    - For Missio Dei
    - God and Jazz
    - Godthreads
    - Is the Distinction Between "Emerging Church" and "Emergent" Obscurantist?
    - Looking Beyond a Facade of Modernity
    - Modernism and Postmodernism: The Four Quadrant
    - On Alexander Hamilton
    - On the Opportunities and Limits of the Multi-Site Church Approach
    - Online and Facetime Relationships
    - Organizational Excellence and Spiritual Life in Community
    - On Psychological Hardiness
    - Questions for New Leaders: A Troika of Books for Taking on a New Role
    - Core Concepts from Collins' Good to Great
    - The Jesus Tomb: A Call for Perspective
    - The Decline of the Denomination and the Ascendancy of Churches
    - Accepting the Third Dimension: The Grace of not Absolutizing Others
    - The Limits of Moleskins and Multi-Site Churches
    - The Morality of Modern War
    - The New Third Place and the Declining Cost of Information
    - The Nexus of Emerging Church and Calvinism
    - This Place is of the Dark
    - Toward a Praxis of Theological Disagreement, part 1
    - Toward a Praxis of Theological Disagreement, part 2 - A Lesson from Puzo and Coppola
    - Whither Fideism
    - The Insult of Being Fair
    - Job: A Primer for Christians in Postmodernity
    - A Rhythm of Learning/Planning/Executing
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