From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard After two months of wrestling with my new whisper, I closed my graphic design business to accept a job working for Roof Above, not in the soup kitchen but to help develop a housing program. I immersed myself […]

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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby  “We spend our days doing what we do for all kinds of reasons. It is the work we have been given to do or what we have found to do. Some of us do work that seems to

From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell On the website Simply Psychology, writer Charlotte Ruhl explains that the term “implicit bias,” or unconscious bias, was first coined in 1995 by psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, who argues that social behavior is largely influenced by

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey I know of leading organizations who ask their employees directly the following simple question in formal, 36-degree feedback processes: “Do you trust your boss?” These companies have learned that the answer to this one question is more predictive of

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Changing our spiritual listening habits helps us hear ourselves. When we do that, we find that our lives speak to us about who we are, what our capabilities are, and what our purpose in life is in each season and situation. There are

From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Consider how ingrained sacrificial thinking is in our psyche. If only we could destroy that other political party, that other company, those terrorists, that troublemaker, that fast-food joint next door that has caused me to gain ten pounds, everything would be better.

From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace We mistreat the word inspiration almost as much as the word love. Travel ads promise inspiration for the whole family, if we just pick the right beach. Sports figures thank their families for inspiring them to kick

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney Steve explained that after thousands of recorded conversations they had found that battling over differing interpretations of the evidence kept the people they met from exploring why they felt so strongly one way or the other. People could remain in

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,