Brian Allain

Discernment As The Missing Link

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Vital to the exercise of Inner Authority is the practice of discernment. Discernment is the spiritual practice of decision-making by which we bring decisions into prayer. Spiritual leader Rose Mary Dougherty notes, “The eye of the heart grows accustomed […]

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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Just learning about the growth mindset can cause a big shift in the way people think about themselves and their lives. So each year in my undergraduate course, I teach about these mindsets – not only because they are part of the topic

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In the room where it happened

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The most striking discovery in Dunbar’s study turned out to be the physical location where most of the important breakthroughs occurred. With a science like molecular biology, we inevitably have an image in our heads of the scientist alone in the

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Lord’s Prayer

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner In the Episcopal order of worship, the priest sometimes introduces the Lord’s Prayer with the words, “Now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say…” The word bold is worth thinking about. We do well not to pray

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Bursting Bubbles

From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell One of the saddest things I’ve experienced while working in the media is how quick fellow Christians have been to make assumptions that are not true. These assumptions have been judgmental and plain mean. In fact, I cannot

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