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Jul 29, 2011
The High Calling of Banner Advertising
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Starting on July 29, 2011, there will be an advertisement right above me here. Perhaps it is telling you about Gordon-Conwell Seminary. Perhaps it is inviting you to join the United States National Guard as a chaplain. It may be offering you 20% of special editions of The Message from NavPress. It may even be suggesting you consider UPS for printing... Read More + |
Jul 29, 2011
PhotoPlay Gallery: In Good Company
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PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry collaborated again this month, bringing visual beauty and verbal delight together into one rewarding, creative response. Last week, we invited you to capture a conversation with your camera. Some of you went a step further and wrote a sestina – a poem form that fits well with our topic on conversation. Enjoy “Floor... Read More + |
Jul 29, 2011
Not Your Ordinary Team
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Businesses are, in a way, like families. It used to be that a family was thought of as Mom and Dad, plus two or three kids - and maybe a dog. Today a family can be a Mom, a Dad, a step mom or step dad, half brothers, step sisters, or some combination of all of the above. The problem with mourning the loss of the traditional family is that we miss... Read More + |
Jul 28, 2011
Real Peace Comes From Within
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There is a flat valley between two mountain ranges just east of Creede, Colorado. The valley is about a mile wide and the Rio Grande river meanders back and forth through it. My in-laws began coming to this valley in the 1950s. They and their friends would walk down to the river to wade and fish. In the late 1970s, they, along with a dozen or so other... Read More + |
Jul 27, 2011
Stonewalled
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Sometimes, it seems there are no words. No words to write that seem worthwhile. No words that fit without pinching or coming all undone and hanging loose around the ankles. Oh, they’re there. But it seems as if they aren’t. They lay dormant behind a wall of worry or disappointment or fear or questions that remain unanswered or too much going on or... Read More + |
Jul 27, 2011
Kyrie Eleison, Down the Road that I Must Travel
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We’re on our way home from a family vacation, zipping down long ribbons of asphalt. July afternoon spills hot through the windshield. There’s a heavy hum under the tires, and my husband yawns. I push buttons to find a melody to break the monotony. “Jessie’s Girl” thrums through the speakers, and I turn the volume higher. Suddenly, we feel the bass... Read More + |
Jul 25, 2011
The Five Rules of Spiritual Engagement at Work
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For many of us, connecting work with spiritual life is an elusive quest. A few days ago, one bold soul came forth and asked quite directly how I personally handled this dilemma of integrating my faith into the workplace. As if I were the expert. Much to my surprise, I rattled off a five-pronged strategy, delivered with a great deal of authority and... Read More + |
Jul 25, 2011
Breath for the Bones: Tell Me a Story
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I have never met Luci Shaw. Nor did I have the privilege to know her late husband Harold. But when Luci shared the story of Harold’s death in chapter three of Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit: Reflections on Creativity and Faith—I wept for her. I wept with a deep cavernous grief that stayed with me and became part of who I am. I wept... Read More + |
Jul 24, 2011
Faith at Work, Part 4: Turning Corporate Leadership Upside Down
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Ken Melrose is well known for employing a model of servant leadership to turn around the Toro company when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Earlier this year, he returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to talk to Laity Leadership Institute Senior Fellow David W. Miller about the circuitous path he took to... Read More + |
Jul 24, 2011
Setbacks and Mindset
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Ever hear of Bethany Hamilton? By age 13, she was a world-class surfer. That was before a shark, without warning, appeared and bit off her entire left arm. The loss of blood almost killed her. Isn’t that a clue to take up a new sport—on land? Not for Bethany. She loved surfing. What’s more, she believed God’s purpose in her life trumped even the... Read More + |
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Christ the Preacher of Peace
According to Ephesians 2:17, Christ came as the preacher of peace. When we try to unpack the meaning of this claim, we might at first think of the literal preaching of Jesus. He did promise to give... Read More +
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