From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner There are two ways of remembering. One is to make an excursion from the living present back into the dead past. The old sock remembers how things used to be when you and I were young, Maggie. The faraway look in his […]

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From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace These artists may be the first victim of their own propaganda. Their need to believe may help them to create especially potent lies. Recording those lies may reveal fundamental truths about human nature and desire. And the

From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell Throughout this book I’ve shared lessons I learned while working in newsrooms across the country. They are lessons I had hoped to learn in our churches. Instead, I learned them in the workplace. I learned about justice and

From “Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma” by Ellen Corcella As I turned around, I saw the patient’s teenage children seated in the darkened corner, frozen in fear. I walked over, and, as I introduced myself, my insides suddenly knotted up as my body connected the patient lying in bed to

From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD I didn’t learn until much later that the shattering of my home life had played out against the backdrop of an era that was already unfavorable to Black people in the South. Scholars have demonstrated an inescapable link between deprived social

From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer When we let AI think for us, our capacity to think for ourselves atrophies.  In Being Human in 2035, global experts predicted that our capacity for deep, critical thought will decline as AI becomes embedded in daily life. Russell

From “World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading” by Jeff Crosby I never asked for her name, and I wish I had. I never saw her again, and I’d hoped I would.  It was a cool autumn Saturday morning in the university community where my wife and I operated a bookstore in the early years

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Just like clay, we are easily molded in some ways and not in others. Another part of listening to our lives speak is to recognize these natural tendencies:

From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby