by Guy Sayles | Sep 2, 2016 |
Do we always have to settle for “it is what it is”—to surrender to the status quo?Too often, it feels like we do. Inertia, habit, and sameness seem stronger than any hope we have for change.We know, for instance, what happens to New Year’s resolutions. We’re...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 25, 2016 |
Two intriguing entertainment venues have recently opened in downtown Asheville: Conundrum and Breakout. They create and offer adventures of escape, journeys from lost to found, and mysteries to explore. Participants assume new identities as hostages, questers,...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 17, 2016 |
See my post at the Center for Healthy Churches blog: http://chchurches.org/ministry-election-year/
by Guy Sayles | Aug 12, 2016 |
Before much of the new school year goes by, a child will come home with red, puffy eyes, sagging shoulders, and a wounded heart because of some ugly thing someone has said. I hope no one says to that child: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 9, 2016 |
Sometimes we do less in order to be more.Sometimes things have to be simpler so that we may deal with complexity.Sometimes we are quieter in order to say more.Sometimes we become gentler as a way of being stronger.Sometimes we lament our way to laughter and grieve our...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 5, 2016 |
Farmer-poet-essayist Wendell Berry claims that there are things about being a farmer which can only be known by living on the land, 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...
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