Courage is a concept you don’t hear much about anymore. Cowardice, yes. Politics over doing the right thing, YES. Courage, not so much. The other day I heard an interview with DrewRead More…
Leave it to me to see “Oppenheimer” and an interview with photojournalist, James Nachtwey, on the same day. One was about the horrors of war and the other was about…the horrors ofRead More…
There are two kinds of people in the world—those who squeeze the life right out of us and those who give life lavishly. Two kinds. (Okay, maybe three, counting all of usRead More…
Last week, I started a leadership course on interacting with people experiencing homelessness and trauma. One session was about de-escalation. When a situation starts getting tense (in a library, for example), theRead More…
I had cataract surgery this morning. (Yes, I’m of a certain age.) So lately, because of my upcoming procedure, readings about seeing have “caught my eye.” (Groan if you must…) Anyway, here’sRead More…
The president of my university says this. “The most effective people are learners rather than knowers. Knowers, assuming they have arrived, draw only on what they have learned. Learners, on the otherRead More…
Sometimes I don’t know how to be. There’s the honesty of hurting, the optimism of hoping. the acceptance of reality, the holiness of questioning, the freedom of laughter, the choice of trusting.Read More…
The Proverbs are for “gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight; for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair…”(Prov. 1:2-3) We should be prettyRead More…
I love this by Father Richard Rohr. “Our task is to find the good, the true, and the beautiful in everything—even, and most especially, in the problematic. The bad is never strongRead More…
It seems most of us were raised with a right/wrong lens. Let’s call it the “sin” lens. It’s the way we see the world. But I think there are a couple ofRead More…