Holy Week Reflections – Pigeon Monday
What did Jesus have against pigeons? Or more specifically, against pigeon traders? To kick off Holy Week, I though I’d share an idea. On the Monday of Easter week Jesus entered the temple grounds and…
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What Does it Mean to be an American?
For the last few years I’ve had a crazy question bouncing around in my head. The basic idea is this: globalization is going to transform our ideas about citizenship as geographic boundaries become less meaningful….
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The Other Half of the Sky
If you peruse the various organizations that combat sex trafficking, you will usually find a consistent narrative that the women and children are victims. The men are evil. Hard to argue with that. But ……
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Wealth, Work, and the World
Some of you may read this post and think, “Well, it doesn’t really apply to me…I’m not rich.” Nonsense. If you make more than $24k a year, you are among the wealthiest 10% in the…
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Family, Blogging, and Links
I have several links for you to click today…trust me, you’ll have fun with this… A lot of people who read this blog were supporters of my son when he went to Thailand last year….
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Drifting from Prayer
My prayer life has drifted lately. Meetings, travels, and all the other exercises of life have drawn me away from the times of reflection and quiet that our souls need. What’s curious is that this…
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Civility, Humility, Tragedy
The tragic violence in Tucson has led to more conversation about civility in our society. Whether the action of an unstable young man was fueled by the violent language of politics or not is important,…
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Competition
I’ve been thinking a lot about competition lately. We compete in business, politics, global affairs, sports, and even in many personal pursuits (I know people who live in angst because they have fewer twitter followers…