From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Living into an increasing understanding of God’s ever-presence is how we can pray along with Thomas Merton: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where […]

From “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” by Parker J. Palmer Take on big jobs worth doing, jobs like the spread of love, peace, and justice. That means refusing to be seduced by our cultural obsession with being effective as measured by short-term results. We all want our work to make

From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill Over the last few years at 80,000 Hours, we’ve coached hundreds of people like Peter, as well as people later in their careers, most of whom find the following

From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark Consider this. In October 2016, the American public was made privy to an Access Hollywood audio recording of then candidate Donal Trump offering a detailed, gloating, and graphic description of his own act of sexual

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer The first shadow-casting monster is insecurity about identity and worth.  Many leaders have an extroverted personality that makes this shadow hard to see. But extroversion sometimes develops as a way to cope with self-doubt: we plunge into external activity to

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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard As I kept connecting the God Dots in my life, I stopped being surprised by the connections and started being more expectant. In fact, if a week went by without discovering a remarkable story, I would wonder if

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Thurman demystified mysticism by framing it simply. Mystics are people who have a personal religious experience or an encounter with God. This description has freed me and many others from thinking that God appears to people only after years

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird It may be a bit disappointing initially that when we look for clear answers to the burning questions in our lives, we are left only with titles of books, experiences in nature, names of people, and