Andy Rowell

Church Leadership Conversations

  • Weekly religious service attenders are the only group who report more with excellent mental health this year

    Weekly religious service attenders are the only group to have more rate their mental health as excellent in mid- Nov 2020 than in 2019.
    https://news.gallup.com/poll/327311/americans-mental-health-ratings-sink-new-low.aspx
    1. Religious attenders are often happier. See https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1300552809092243456?s=20
    2. Interesting because many are attending online.

    https://twitter.com/ahc/status/1337390615135477762

    Between June 29 and September 18, about 50% of the churches that the @BarnaGroup surveyed were hosting church services in their usual building. (0% were between March 20 and May 18).

    https://pinkston.co/docs/church-leader-survey-results-week-18.pdf

    A @pewresearch study shows that 29% of those who could work at home are going back to the office.
    100% – 71% = 29%29% going back to the office
    https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/12/09/how-the-coronavirus-outbreak-has-and-hasnt-changed-the-way-americans-work/

    A study of office space occupancy shows 21% have returned to work. The high of 27% was in October.

    https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1336777506381246464?s=20

    Based on those two statistics of about 21-29% of people have returned to their workplaces though they could work at home, I’m guessing that is also about the percentage of people who have returned to attend church in person even though they could attend online.

    Originally tweeted by Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) on December 11, 2020.

  • The Digital Karl Barth Library search support ticket

    Dear Alexander Street,

    I am having mixed results doing word searches in The Digital Karl Barth Library. I thought I would do a simple search and document the steps in order to demonstrate why it is confusing and discouraging.  

    For example, if I go into Advanced Search and search for: Bonhoeffer. 

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    I specify Language of Edition as: English. 

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    It gives me 11 results where this word is found. 

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     Let’s click on that second result Doctrine of Reconciliation, Vol. 2.  What is odd is that you do NOT see “Bonhoeffer” in the text. 

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    However, if you do click the #3,4,5,6,7 matches, you do see Bonhoeffer result. Those work correctly!  

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    So, where are the first two matches? 
    And when you hover over all of the matches it shows the Page Number as NA. 

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    This makes it hard to find the references without the page number. 
    Also, note that when you click on the 3rd match, it does NOT highlight Bonhoeffer in the text. But when you click on the other matches, it does highlight Bonhoeffer in the text in blue.  

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    I am also doing searches with German but I just wanted to identify the inconsistencies and confusion in just one search. 
    I also did not mention that often a document takes 30 seconds to load. 
    Thank you for looking into this. 
    Andy

    Background:

    • I used the previous “legacy” platform extensively for my dissertation but they have created a new platform.
    • Many people are having trouble. See the thread at:
    https://twitter.com/kaitdugan/status/1323300923511316481
    • My hope is the above will help others who are also having trouble so that we can pinpoint the problems and hopefully advocate so they can be solved.

  • Social science literature on persuasion

    Thread on social science literature on persuasion.
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    It is a process of conversation and relationship over an extended period of time.

    To persuade, you will want to invite people to reflect.

    My comments on: https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1222569455575760897 on

    "It is possible to talk people out of bigotry. But the method that seems to work is time-intensive, emotionally difficult, and requires a lot of careful work to keep people from reacting defensively." Thread from Ezra Klein.

    In the most effective sales call, the salesperson talks 46% of the time and asks 13 questions.
    – Amit Bendov of http://Gong.io to Michael Lewis @pushkinpods
    https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-data-coach-s1!68200

    Elevate your sales game: The 11 best discovery call tips

    "Felt understanding led to more positive intergroup orientations and action intentions in most contexts."
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2020.

    Often people begin thinking like the people they are hanging out with.

    "As individuals realigned their party affiliation in accordance with their initial abortion views, their other political, economic and social views followed suit."
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014759671930040X,

    And on the morality of persuasion:

    Originally tweeted by Andy Rowell (@AndyRowell) on October 8, 2020.