CRM: Empowering Leaders

14.February.2011

Curtis Love, South Africa

The life of God is already in you (Part 1/4)

Once upon a time, the story goes, a preacher ran through the streets of the city shouting, ‘We must put God into our lives. We must put God into our lives.’ And hearing him, the old monastic rose up in the city plaza to say, ‘No, sir, you are wrong. You see, God is already [...]
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9.February.2011

Curtis Love, South Africa

Toilet Paper Roll Art (No Seriously its beautiful)

It’s always so good when you come across someone else’s creativity that inspires your own . My good friend Brian Ward’s mantra was “creativity breeds creativity”. This artist’s work definitely did this for me. It’s simple, down to earth and I found it quite moving. I don’t know if you find it moving? What is [...]
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7.February.2011

Curtis Love, South Africa

(The Brilliant) Brett Murray on being White.

[This post is a little dated, I wrote it while ago and decided to only publish it now. As far as I can tell this particular conversation has died down, although the broader conversation is  still absolutely critical to the future of whites in (South) Africa. I have had some problems with the links but [...]
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31.January.2011

Curtis Love, South Africa

Why we always get stuck when trying to solve South African problems.

I was reading back on some old posts and came across these great insights from Adam Kahane’s Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities. This was really influential in helping me understand why so often meaningful conversation and helpful problem solving in South Africa is so difficult. Whether across ideological, theological [...]
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15.December.2010

Curtis Love, South Africa

From Bali with Love (Part IV)

This is my fourth post about my trip to the beautiful country of Indonesia. The first post was about the reason for my trip to Indonesia which you can read about here. The second post was about the crazy city of Jakarta which you can rea…
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15.December.2010

Curtis Love, South Africa

From Bandung with Love

This is my third post about my trip to the beautiful country of Indonesia. The first post was about the reason for my trip to Indonesia which you can read about here. The second post was about the crazy city of Jakarta which you can read…
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15.December.2010

Curtis Love, South Africa

Quote of the Week

There is a time in everyone’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of …
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27.November.2010

Curtis Love, South Africa

From Jakarta with Love

 Yesterday I posted about the reason for my trip to Indonesia here but today I wanted to share a little of the travel side of my trip. Indonesia has some of the most beautiful landscape, beaches and some of the best tasting food around! I wou…
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26.November.2010

Curtis Love, South Africa

Learning Transformation in Indonesia (Part II)

Well, Yesterday I arrived back from my (amazing) time in Indonesia. First things first, Indonesia is hot, Bali inhumane! Secondly if travelling to Bali, save a little extra money to make sure you can afford a room with A/C to prevent a core temperature…
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