Brian Allain

From “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most” by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz Long, happy, healthy: it’s the slogan for a peculiarly modern vision of a life worth living. The world’s great traditions don’t endorse a “long, happy, healthy: life without qualification. Neither do billions of followers of Buddha, Jesus, […]

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer The idea for my book lit up before me like an airport runway. I knew the marketing world was about to be transformed. We were being handed an entirely new way to connect to consumers

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr If there is such a  thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. What a clever place for God to hide holiness, so that only the humble and

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Here’s another example on a much smaller scale. “Jim,” a vendor in New York City, set up shop and sold donuts and coffee to passersby as they went in and out of their office buildings. During the breakfast and

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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby  Several years ago, on one such trip I read a book by Harvard Business School professor Bill George and Peter Sims of the Stanford Graduate School of Business titled Discover Your True North – an appropriate book to

From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Scapegoats are chosen through a mimetic process of judgment, not a rational one. Consider the ancient practice of stoning: a group of people throws stones at someone until they die from blunt trauma. It was the official form of capital punishment in

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Business consultant Martin Lindstrom estimates that 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event. Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Home Depot and products such as Velcro, Viagra, Band-Aids, and Post-It Notes emerged

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer  A fourth shadow within and among us is fear, especially our fear of the natural chaos of life. Many of us – parents and teachers and CEOs – are deeply devoted to eliminating all remnants of chaos from the world.

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