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Enough

by | Aug 24, 2012 | 0 comments

When Anne Lamott was expecting her son, Sam, she realized how much she feared that she would be unable to provide adequately for his needs.  She remembered that, during her own childhood, her parents were so cheap that they didn’t keep Band-Aids in the...

Not on our own

by | Aug 16, 2012 | 0 comments

A long time ago, much longer than I care to admit, I played high school football.  I was big and strong, but not very fast and not very good with my hand, so that meant I was an offensive tackle.  It’s not a position anyone gets excited about, not even...

For the people

by | Aug 7, 2012 | 0 comments

Tom Morris enjoys bringing the insights he has mined from the disciplines of philosophy and theology to bear on the challenges and opportunities of leadership.  In his book If Aristotle Ran General Motors, he described a “pivotal conversation” between designer...

Freedom of Serving

by | Jul 31, 2012 | 2 comments

There’s no such thing as absolute freedom. Bob Dylan was right “You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed/You’re gonna have to serve somebody/Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.”  We’re always serving...

by | Jul 25, 2012 | 0 comments

I’m grateful to have the chance to share this sermon–“A Vast and Loving God”–through Day 1: http://day1.org/3945-our_vast_and_loving_god

No Magic in a Moving Van

by | Jul 23, 2012 | 0 comments

Have you ever tried a geographical cure for your problems? Just move to a new city and leave your problems in the old one.  The difficulties you’ve had and the challenges you’ve faced in the past are the fault of the clueless employers and insensitive coworkers...

Silence and Listening

by | Jul 19, 2012 | 0 comments

Yesterday, July 18, was “World Listening Day,” and it might be a commentary on my own failure to listen well that I didn’t hear about it until the day had passed.  The World Listening Project sponsors World Listening Day as a part of its mission to encourage...

Just Tag-Along

by | Jul 13, 2012 | 0 comments

Wendell Berry says that there are things about a farm which a farmer learns only by living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of animals that...