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Servant-Leadership

Servant-leadership has overarching purpose: to help people to become who they most truly are and to do what they are most deeply called to do. In 1919, D. J. DePree was named president of the company which soon became the Herman Miller Corporation (Miller was DePree’s...

Miscellany of Quotes

When I was in elementary and junior-high school, I looked forward to the arrival of the new edition of Readers’ Digest. I liked the jokes (“Laughter is the Best Medicine,” “Humor in Uniform,” and “Campus Comedy”) and enjoyed the challenge of the vocabulary-building...

Walking Together in Peace

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Alice walked through the “wood of no names,” where individuals didn’t remember their own names and had little awareness of qualities which set them apart from others.  She encountered there...

The Stewardship of Anger

The anger is palpable, isn’t it? The presidential primary campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have, in different  ways, focused and channeled a lot of the anger people feel.Trump and Sanders diverge radically from each other in their fundamental...

Tomorrow Today

In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, a freed slave, Paul D. tells, Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape her haunting memories: “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.” Easter is the tomorrow we yearn for, the...

Surrender

Bruce Springsteen sang the truth I experienced this past Thursday evening at All Souls Cathedral: “In the end, what you don’t surrender, well, the world just strips away.”After we shared the Maundy Thursday Eucharist, the church gradually descended into thicker...

Conversations about Calling

One of many gifts I receive from my students at Mars Hill University is our ongoing conversations about vocation and calling.  As they get closer to graduating, they inevitably ask questions like:“What’s next?”“Grad school?  What discipline and where?”“A...

I Can’t Make Him Beautful Enough

Words are both fragile and sturdy vessels.  Like rafts on storm-tossed water, they sometimes break beneath us and leave us stranded at a far distance from the mystery and meaning we sought to reach. Not always, though; they also may take us beyond the horizon of...

God’s Will?

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”Jesus taught his followers to acknowledge that the earth doesn’t yet fully flourish under God’s gracious rule of justice and peace and to pray that it will. He invited us to join him in his longing for...