Brian Allain

From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard How could this woman know exactly the words I needed to hear? I hadn’t planned to start speaking any more than I had planned to house the homeless, but it seemed that both were inevitable. “The most important […]

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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.                                                                    -Howard Thurman My friend Harriet and I trudge across the clay

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Each of us has a mission in life. Jesus prays to his Father for his followers, saying, “As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world” (John 17:18 NRSV).

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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Mindset change is not about picking up a few pointers here and there. It’s about seeing things in a new way. When people – couples, coaches and athletes, managers and workers, parents and children, teachers and students – change to a growth mindset,

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson A metropolis shares one key characteristic with the Web: both environments are dense, liquid networks where information easily flows along multiple unpredictable paths. Those interconnections nurture great ideas, because most great ideas come into the world half-baked, more hunch than revelation.

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner At its heart most theology, like most fiction, is essentially autobiography. Aquinas, Calvin, Barth, Tillich, working out their systems in their own ways and in their own language, are all telling us the stories of their lives, and if you press them

From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace To explain inspiration as a product of the unconscious holds some obvious attractions for an artist.  First, it’s wonderfully flattering. Under this theory, an artist is no longer the victim or devotee of a mysterious external force.

From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell If you feel as if you are on the fringes, or if you are frightened by the idea of opening up opportunities to everyone, maybe you are too far from the margins. Maybe you are living inside your