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Who are the best leaders you have known?

When I say leader, what images flash across your mind? For me, the word conjures up quite a crowded room full of people, many of whom are so different from each other that they wouldn’t be very comfortable with my having gotten them together. There’s George Patton...

Listening is Love’s Finest Art

Love depends on knowledge and acceptance. Love takes the time to find out who you really are: what you think and believe, what you question and doubt, what puzzles and perplexes you, what delights and enlivens you, where you’ve been, what’s happened to you, where you...

Instead of Worry. . .

Fear is faith’s adversary. Fear makes us see the world as a dangerous place, shrouded in darkness and stalked by death. So, we build thick walls around our hearts and high-fences around our loved ones. To protect ourselves from hurt, we push aside adventure. To...

Arriving Where I Started

Early on, I bought the idea—maybe you bought it, too—that the older I got and the more I learned, the more I would know for sure. As time went by, I’d have more understanding and fewer questions. I liked that idea, so I stocked the warehouse of mind full of facts. By...

My Witness: The Way of Jesus is a Way of Hope

A final post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. Our world, torn asunder by division and hostility, needs people who will embrace Jesus’ calling to be peacemakers, not just peacekeepers and conflict-avoiders....

My Witness: The Story of Jesus Makes Sense Out of Life

A fourth post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. For me, no other story makes as much sense out of the perplexity and mystery of life as the story of Jesus. His story fires my imagination and warms my heart. I...