From “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” by Parker J. Palmer As you welcome whatever you find alien within yourself, extend that same welcome to whatever you find alien in the outer world. I don’t know any virtue more important these days than hospitality to the stranger, to those we perceive […]
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Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr. Read the free article here
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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 The five key questions of effective altruism.
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer If we are to live our lives fully and well, we must learn to embrace the opposites, to live in a creative tension between our limits and our potentials. We must honor our limitations in ways that do not distort
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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard For years, I marveled about my meeting with Denver and how he and I came to be in the same two feet of the universe. His four questions began the ripple effect for the change in my life
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown There is the rest of detachment and withdrawal when the spirit moves into the depths of the region of the Great Silence…Here the Presence of God is sensed as an all pervasive aliveness which materializes into the concreteness of
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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Small, seemingly insignificant events, ideas, and life circumstances can become occasions to discern God’s will and calling in your life. Both inner and outer events and circumstances can be read and interpreted as signposts leading to
From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Aside from hijacking people’s abilities, stereotypes also do damage by making people feel they don’t belong. Many minorities drop out of college and many women drop out of math and science because they just don’t feel they fit in. To find out how