From “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons” by Frederick Buechner From the Foreword by Brian McLaren: I have no desire to analyze what makes Buechner’s writing and preaching so extraordinary. Neither do I want to account for Bob Bylan’s raspy mystique, the peculiar beauty of a rainbow trout in a riffle, or a […]

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr Most people are trying to build the platform of their lives all by themselves, while working all the new levers at the same time. I think of CEOs, business leaders, soldiers, or parents who have no principled or ethical sense of

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey One time I hired a guide to take my fly fishing in Montana. As I looked out over the river, he said, “Tell me what you see.” Basically I told him I saw a beautiful river with the sun

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney When I asked Broockman and Kalla for a lead or two, they said to look deeper into something psychologists call elaboration, a state of active learning in which a person unpacks a new idea by relating to something they already

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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown After his father’s death, a grieving and lonely Howard spent much of his time outside alone. Silence and solitude offered solace to Thurman, and in nature he frequently experienced the presence of God, or oneness. He sensed that something

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD A View From The Two Mindsets To give you a better sense of how the two mindsets work, imagine – as vividly as you can – that you are a young adult having a really bad day:  One day, you go to a

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The most striking discovery in Dunbar’s study turned out to be the physical location where most of the important breakthroughs occurred. With a science like molecular biology, we inevitably have an image in our heads of the scientist alone in the

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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