by Guy Sayles | Apr 20, 2016 |
Over the last few months, I’ve often traveled north on I-26/US 23 into the broken heart of Eastern Kentucky’s coal country.The land looks weary. There are gashes in the hillsides which huge machines have stripped bare not only of coal but of topsoil; peaks blasted...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 14, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 13, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 6, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 30, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 28, 2016 |
From a Chalkboard in Pullman Square, Huntington
by Guy Sayles | Mar 27, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 26, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 24, 2016 |
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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 22, 2016 |
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...
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