Saturday Mornings

God would prove Jesus’ anointing not by vindication, but by resurrection . -- Russell Moore , The Evangelical Temptation to Prove Ourselves ...

What if it’s Saturday and you don’t yet know about the hope of  Easter Sunday? Easter is about hope, but first…

The only way to know how to do something really well is to do it a lot. Strength is something you discover, sometimes by intent, but more o...

FASTCOMPANY It’s not even the end of March yet, but measles cases in the United States have already surpassed the total number of measles c...

The psychologists and the theologians, the poets and the mystics, assure us that impasse can be the condition for creative growth and transf...

We all have ability.  The difference is how we use it. -- Stevie Wonder

In the spirit with which I ended last week's post , I'm starting this week's with this wonderful human (and musical) story: I...

  Effort is what drives success, not talent . -- Bruce  Kasanoff

I’m wondering … why does it seem like like it is way more challenging to do what’s good for yourself, than it is not to? Or, put it this wa...

The Bible doesn't end with souls ascending to a disembodied heaven.  It ends with a fully embodied heaven descending to Earth . The  re...

We really need to get more serious about eliminating single-use products. Like many things in life, government is often about making adju...

GALLUP - Front Page The Dispatch In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our repu...

We are living in an age of selfishness. Many of us noticed an increase in selfish behavior during the early days of the pandemic. At the tim...

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength. -- George Seaton Bowes

The historian Howard Zinn wrote, “The most revolutionary act one can engage in is […] to tell the truth .” Indeed! I think the revolutionar...

Instagram:  sharonsaysso The mark of a great leader is who they lift up, not who they put down. -- Sharon McMahon

Ever noticed …that our affections either sustain us or tear us down?

Busyness is the enemy of spirituality . It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our...

Vox The nation has had a record drop in homicides and other categories of violent crime. The only crime that has risen in 2023 is vehicle t...

Pick some ways that you don't want to be half-hearted . There is what you think you’re seeing, and then there is what you actually saw...

On the Lighter Side : Robert Reich

The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. -- Booker T. Washington

I’m waiting today for something to capture my imagination to write about.  Lots of seedling ideas, but nothing particular is compelling enou...

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others  to join you. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I've noticed ...that I wish I was more naturally inspiring .

The desert is the spiritual wildness protection program, open to anyone willing to leave the pavement and be emptied right out, making room...

Good is not simply the absence of bad. Sometimes I catch myself acting like ( thinking ) I'm not loved . Part of living with understand...

GALLUP - Front Page

‘ Poem for the week’ — “Let's Try Again”: God, I come to you as I am. It is all I have, really. And the next one I’m conscious of will ...

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends. -- Buddy Wakefield

I've recently taken up something that could soon become a verifiable hobby — baking bread.  Still quite the novice; but, when you start ...

Good leaders share the credit when things go well and take responsibility when things go badly. -- Simon  Sinek

I’m wondering …about why I feel like getting out of bed some days and not others.  What is it that makes me feel like it when I do (and not ...

Order by itself normally wants to eliminate any disorder and diversity . Disorder by itself closes us off from any primal union, meaning, an...

Letters from an American

The ability to live well is the ability to live without so many certainties . -- Stanley Hauerwas The sacred task at hand is to let yourself...

People are living longer lives, but not healthier ones—and there are four main reasons why. In 1950, the average American life span was 65 y...

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware . -- Martin Buber

I’ve always been a little intrigued by the imagery of paths (not to mention, the idea of them and what they essentially represent).  I’m par...

To change the world, you need persistent and positive thoughts that are strong enough to change your own actions. In other words, before yo...

Ever noticed ...that heavier stuff settles to the bottom of the glass? A metaphor perhaps....

We need to create a new vision for the Christian life that is built not on the safety and certainty of our opinions, but on the risk and ...

Welcome to the end of democracy . We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor...

How you start is often pretty close to how you will finish. Many people can only react to external forces because they’ve never developed an...

‘ Poem  for the week’ — “To the Sea”: Sometimes when you start to ramble or rather when you feel you are starting to ramble you will say Wel...

At one point, when my wife and I were younger, we knew a couple who had been married for 25 years and we thought they were really old. Now t...

  I observed  at one point that w e are the ones who have to take responsibility of what we put into our bodies. We have to understand fo...

We are told you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. But what if you could? Having spent the past two decades helping lea...

I've noticed ...an emergence, within myself. Its features, there as long as I can remember, seem to be gaining some kind of momentum. I...

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut [now Fourth and Muhammad Ali Boulevard], in the center of the shopping district, I was sud...