The evening after the clocks go back an hour isn’t the longest day of the year. For me, it only feels like it is. The light is super bright in the morning, lunchtime hits fast, and in the early afternoon, the shadows race in as if they’ve been held at bay all year and we’ve […]
For the beauty of the Earth
I haven’t lived anywhere I’m more conscious of “the fragility of each breath” than New York City. The density of traffic fumes and tobacco clouds, and occasionally the pungent odor of marijuana, too—all of these pollutants make it easy to notice my breath and the quality of air I’ve taken for granted until now. When […]
Two tools for year-end reviews
I reserve time during the last week of each year to take stock and look ahead. This card from the Execudeck challenges me not to wait for tomorrow, some future and imaginary time when everything will be perfect. Instead of projecting myself out into that future, I ask, how can I make best use of […]
The Wisdom of Difference among the Disciples of Christ
This invited article is being published in the Renewed Heart Ministries newsletter this month and will be in the public archive by February. I’ll update the link when it’s available. Keisha E. McKenzie “And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, And to have […]
Wheatley on Learning Organizations
“The Army is an incredibly literate organization. They have internal journals that they use to correspond with one another. They study history carefully. They have a center for Army lessons learned. They document everything. And they have this wonderful process of learning from direct experience called “After Action Review,” in which everyone who was involved […]
What We Need More
“In order that the gospel in the New Testament might be made as palatable as possible to as many people as possible, its rough edges have been shorn off and the radical edge of Jesus’ preaching as been replaced by a respectable middle, of which “niceness” is now God. When Jesus came preaching, it was […]
