Brian Allain

From “The Soulwork of Justice: Four Movements for Contemplative Action” by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson Other cultures work from an assumption that relationships and community are foundational for understanding reality and human development. The African concept of Ubuntu, for instance, often shared by the late Bishop Desmond Tutu, has the core assumption that “a person is a

From “Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma” by Ellen Corcella Their son, John, was still a toddler when their marriage ended in divorce. I often picked up John to spend weekends with me, my sister working six days a week to set up a boutique chocolate and gift store in downtown

From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD It was the same trauma that caused the elders in my life – my grandmothers, grandfathers, and other guiding adults – to sometimes shamefully echo the sentiment, “Being Black is hard in this country because of everything we have had to

From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer Humans are changing. If we don’t understand the people we’re trying to reach, we’ll be shouting into the void. Think about it:

From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard While I’ve lived each of these stories or know the person who did, I still cannot begin to fully explain them. From my very first encounter with Denver Moore to the Ask her what she does whisper on

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown “Once, when I was seeking the advice of Howard Thurman and talking to him at some length about what needed to be done in the world, he interrupted me,” writes Gil Bailie in the acknowledgments of his book Violence

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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Through a series of circumstances, conversations, and contemplative impressions over a six-month period, I became acutely aware that my desire to live and work with the poor in Latin America was not matched with a concrete

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Who’s right? Today most experts agree that it’s not either – or. It’s not nature or nurture, genes or environment. From conception on, there’s a constant give-and-take between the two. In fact, as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters – just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book. The great minds of the period – Milton, Bacon, Locke – were zealous believers