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Promiscuous Reading
While preparing for our family travel and rest in June and July, I’ll assemble my “summer stack”– the books I’ll read my way through over


Closer Look
Nearly every culture that lives with cranes considers them sacred, and maybe it’s not too late for ours.


Coming Attractions
One of the many hats I get to wear in my professional life (and, I might add, perhaps the most stylish of them) is as


Building the Kingdom? Nope
The language implies that we naturally identify the Kingdom with what we are building or organizing or working on.

Free to Be Faithful
By the time May 3 rolled around, 500+ had signed up to attend the event live and 3000 had registered for the livestream. There were


Windows on Mystery: Wet
Failure is written all over this story, Peter’s failures, the church’s failure, your failures and mine. But Jesus is not done with them


Why Love?
A few weeks ago, we made the trip to New York to see Maybe Happy Ending, a new musical that opened on Broadway last year.


More Virtuous Baggage
Hi Ron: I’m glad to have you for my ideal reader because the stuff I’m discussing in this series can get very heavy and abstract.


Creativity and Positive Freedom
Positive freedom works to create something. It aims to build a society where all flourish.


Dire Wolf-ish
Dire wolves roamed the Americas during the last ice age but went extinct more than 10,000 years ago


Hope with a British Accent
These two men did something very small for humankind, but it meant the world to me.


Uncomfortable about Power
Black power did not mean white disempowerment but the right of all people to exercise agency for themselves.