A Focus on Paradox in the New Year
Welcome to 2019! The year is less than a week old and already I’m encountering a paradox. Last Sunday I shared how I spent 2018 coming to terms with the continued shift in focus of my business—with less spiritual guidance and retreat leadership and more writing and...
NaNoWriMo and the Perspective of Others
Are you familiar with NaNoWriMo? It’s a virtual challenge group that encourages and supports people who want to write a 50,000-word novel over the course of the month of November. Last year, over 400,000 people around the world participated. It’s mindboggling! The...
Pit Stops on the Road of Life
On our summer road trip, we naturally made quite a few pit stops. The origin of that term has to do with the center pit around a race track, where cars would periodically leave the race to refuel and otherwise be serviced. Most of our pit stops were similar. We needed...
Overturning Conventional Wisdom
There are so many teachings of Jesus that turned the conventional wisdom of his religious tradition—and sometimes his culture—upside down. It’s sometimes hard for us to understand just how revolutionary his pronouncements were, because they have been transformed from...
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