From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace Modern neuroscientists have begun to map the activity of inspiration, name the implicated chemicals, push pins into the hidden quadrants of our minds. Psychologists have identified some of inspiration’s visible triggers: nature, drugs, grief, discipline, rest, surprise. […]
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From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell If you research the subject of bias, you will see many articles pointing to a 1989 study that focused on women working in a factory. This decades-old study compared women who were machinists to women on the assembly
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From “Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma” by Ellen Corcella With a group of travelers also adopting, we flew from New York City to Beijing where we laid over for thirty-six hours. We then flew to Quanzhou, Guangdong Province and checked into the White Swan Hotel. At the same time, social
From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD While numerous historical texts outline the broad strokes of racism’s timeline in America, spanning from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans through the bloodshed of the Civil War into Reconstruction and across the pivotal civil rights movement, these tests –
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From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer The inspiration for this book was planted in 2025 when I was invited to participate as one of 300 futurists in a project to determine how AI will change humanity by 2035. I’m pretty sure the researchers had found
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From “World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading” by Jeff Crosby What I am suggesting in these pages is to approach our reading life with the same spirit of joy, expectation, and discipline that we do others that Scripture is quite clear about, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, and confession, among others. Reading as a
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer My youthful understanding of “Let your life speak” led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. If that sounds like what we
From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard I know there has been and will continue to be skepticism around spirituality. It is the very essence of faith to believe without evidence. But when I started paying attention, listening to those whispers and connecting the God
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Dr. Howard Washington Thurman was born on November 18, 1899, near Palm Beach, Florida. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, where Howard spent his early years with his parents, two sisters, and maternal grandmother,
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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird What I learn from testing a call in Latin America is that my broader vocation is simply to enjoy God’s presence, do God’s will, and be grateful wherever I am. The question of where to live
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