“We learn by our mistakes!” said my fourth-grade teacher with enthusiasm. I did not find this comforting at the time and still...
Business pages headline business mistakes. But just as noteworthy is how people recover from them. Pearl S. Buck once wrote, “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can...
My hope for Jim's fruitful future at our church shriveled on the vine. I felt like a dismal failure as a boss.
I needed to see my work with a craftsman's eye if I was to turn the corner into the second half of my life.
John is an attorney who grew up working in his father’s hardware store. He says it prepared him to practice law. Because in customer service, he says, he learned to "address the problem...
Everybody has an embarrassing work story: a mistake we made, an unhappy accident, or a time we did something we regret. Where...
I didn’t grow up observing Lent, and even now our family doesn’t attend a church that emphasizes the liturgical calendar. I’ve come to understand Lent mostly through watching and learning from...
After the wall surrounding Jerusalem was completed, the Israelites gathered in Jerusalem in order to renew their...
An essential role of the people of God is bringing reconciliation and justice to scenes of conflict and abuse. Although the people...
