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 […]
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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
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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
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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:
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby
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Another extremely important article by Mark Schaefer. Read the free article here.
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From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney Steve would tell me later that they had learned over many conversations that reasons, justifications, and explanations for maintaining one’s existing opinion can be endless, spawning like heads of a hydra. If you cut away one, two more would appear
From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Maybe you’re thinking these random moments are pure luck, a mystical force beyond your control – unless you’re a Jedi master. But there are specific actions you can take to sway serendipitous fate in your
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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr You need a very strong container to hold the contents and contradictions that arrive later in life. You ironically need a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a
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