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Recently a friend sent me a link to an episode of John Lienhard’s radio program “Engines of Our Ingenuity” on which he addressed the topic of decisiveness. While Lienhard is an engineer, his...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
I doubt that there are many folks who wouldn’t agree that our world could benefit from some change. Not everyone would agree, however, what that change should look like. As a society, we have...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
I pulled into the parking lot and turned off the engine. It wasn’t that much earlier than I usually arrive at church on Sunday mornings, but I was struck by how it was still night. Dark. Quiet....
DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”This quote has recently resurfaced in social media in response to the overt racism in Charlottesville last...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
There are things in this world that best ought not be hurried. Many of them lie within the purview of women – birth, the rising of bread, a holy death among them. Of course, any of these can be...
DATE: Aug. 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
Not every religion has a sacred text. Among those that do, I’ve been pondering what their role might be in our 21st century world – a world of pluralism, science and technology and rapid global...
DATE: July 11, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
There is a question that has been trying to form in my mind of late. I say “trying” because depending on the context in which the question is applied, it takes on various nuances and permutations....
DATE: July 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
In what do you believe? I am part of a small group, all of whom would self-identify as Christian, or at least participate in a Christian community. We have recently been engaged in extended...
DATE: May 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
For those of us in churches that follow a liturgical calendar, the celebration of Holy Week is here. It began with Palm Sunday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at Passover. ...
DATE: April 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
Good News. It’s a phrase in the Christian world that is often linked to Jesus ... as in “This is the Good News of Jesus Christ.” The transliteration of the Greek from which this phrase comes is...
DATE: March 13, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
“God bless the United States of America.”Setting aside the annoying assumption that often lurks in the background of this pronouncement that God should bless the U.S. over and above other...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
Who knew that an Army colonel’s wisdom could be so timely? Along with many of us, Margaret Wheatley didn’t. Wheatley is a writer, teacher, and speaker whose area of expertise is organizational...
DATE: March 6, 2017 | COLUMN: Thoughts Along the Way
