Bill was at one of those defining moments. He didn't know at the time, and I doubt he realizes it now. But I remember it well.Sales were down and the stress was high...
Despite a divorce and a series of other setbacks, Rosalie Grafe was bursting with joy. We interact via Facebook, and I was...
A few years ago, I attended a sports breakfast that honored a then-95-year-old basketball legend named John Wooden. Coach Wooden, who recently turned 98, lives in California. At his age, he doesn't...
Over the years, I've discovered two very simple, yet powerful, antibiotics for the spiritual blues.
When I was 16, a man in our church offered me a job for the Christmas holidays. A local department store needed...
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Generally speaking, we act just as we are expected to act. We do things the way we've always done them. We react in most situations like we're expected to react. In a way...
Will Messenger is an Episcopal Priest in Boston with an MBA in marketing from Harvard Business School...
L.L. here, considering the question: what brings bloggers together? Among other things, beauty. Poet Mary Karr says beauty drew her dysfunctional family...
It's easy to feel upbeat about life when things are going your way. Opportunities at work + social standing + love at home = a positive attitude. Then you get extra credit because an optimistic...
Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being...
Jim Lange has an interesting post up about dealing with bad jobs. Everyone has a bad job at some point. And there are no hard and fast rules about how a Christian person...
Ministers have to deal with weddings. It's part of the job. Performing weddings for people in our churches is actually fun. But it's not so fun when people call on the phone, looking...
Nine-year-old Casey Stokes, like his namesake, loves baseball. Already it's taught him the rewards of hard work. Casey’s team was headed for the Little League World Series when his aunt asked him a...
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Some years ago I began a blog so that I could "be myself." There was a certain pressure that came from being a minister, and it was weighing heavily on me. It was...
Christine Sine over at Godspace has offered us an invitation to join her in an exercise in being intentional with Lent this year. ...
So here's the thing: I've always hated hearing about the magical, mysterious, Power of Positive Thinking. Ever since Norman Vincent Peale wrote "The Power of Positive Thinking," religion in America...
The Celts described a porous membrane where the lines between this world and the next blur. They called it "thin space," where...
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