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Discernment Exercise: Shoulds, Wants, and Faithfulness
Might the future of business lie in encouraging shoulds rather than indulging wants? Could corporations help us bring out our better selves?
Understanding Scripture Correctly, Part 2
You are attending a small group Bible study and someone comments, “Jesus came into a broken, fallen world. The problem in this case is hunger, the need to eat, and as the Redeemer he solves the problem with a special supply of food. Won’t it be great in heaven when we won’t need food any more?” How do you respond?
Moments of Perfection…Almost
Occasionally something occurs which seems to carry not a single flaw. Amidst all the brokenness of life an oasis appears that for the moment, at least, seems to have missed the inertia towards chaos and disappointment. Instead it hints at perfection.
Glorious ruins (2)
Not too far outside Rochester, in clear view as we drive past on the highway, is a commercial diary enterprise. It produces a prodigious amount of milk. What is missing is the pastoral scene that usually comes to mind when we think of a dairy farm. There are no dairy cows grazing in a green […]
Stranger to Me
Practicing the rhythm of hospitality, inviting the stranger home, brings many blessings, but it’s a reckless, risky business and often we don’t know what the outcome will be.
Remembering Solzhenitsyn
It was his novels–One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and Cancer Ward (1968)–that probed most deeply into my heart and imagination. Scenes and conversations from both flash into my mind whenever Solzhenitsyn’s name is mentioned. His massive, three volume Gulag Archipelago (1973-1978) was not easy reading but impossible to put down, convincing me that justice requires […]
The cost of creativity
“None of us are getting out of this alive, so you might as well bury yourself in your work.”
Faster
Although I’m convinced most of us travel too fast for our own good, and need to join me in a little ranting about the speed of life, I have reason to notice it more because I have less choice about my speed. It is slower and slower.
Matters of Perspective
My need for severe adjustments in perspective is almost constant. For help I often consider the wisdom of those who mentor me through their lives and writings, they seem a lot farther along.