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On the Move

Faith is a journey.  Movement and mystery are always a part of it, and real faith won’t let us settle-down into the status quo or become comfortable with staying the same or reconcile ourselves to being stuck.  Faith is about adventure, discovery, and risk;...

Knowing the People You Lead

In his Letter to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul recognizes an important paradox.  On the one hand, he says: “Bear one another’s burdens.” On the other hand: “All must carry their own loads.”  There are some problems and challenges in life that we’ll never...

“Work”: Not Necessarirly our Job or Career

Since work is a partnership with God, it isn’t limited to our careers or our jobs. Our life’s work is greater and more enduring than the positions we hold and the titles we have. It includes all the ways we express our partnership with God—all the ways we make a...

Work: A Partnership with God

Charlie Brown and Sally are standing at the bus stop. Cars are rushing past them, and Sally asks: “Who are all those people driving in those cars?” Charlie answers, “Those are people going to work.” Sally: “Work?” Charlie: “They used to wait for the school bus like...

Knowledge and Wisdom, Cousins, not Twins

Knowledge and wisdom are related, but they are more like cousins than like identical twins.  Knowledge has to do with facts, data, and skill; wisdom has to do with significance, purpose, and intention.  Knowledge is concerned with “what” and “how”; wisdom is...

Non-negotiable

I sometimes ask the divinity school students I work with to consider their “non-negotiables”: the beliefs, convictions, and practices which are so central and crucial to their understanding of what it means to be a human being and to be a follower of Jesus that they...