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Mentor
Everybody recognizes the importance of mentors on the job. The best mentoring relationships tend to be the intentional ones, where the older, wiser, seasoned person agrees explicitly to take some promising green young thing under her or his wing. Usually, not only the mentor and protégée profit; the organization or profession does as well.
Ash Wednesday
Let this day, this Ash Wednesday, be a day for fewer words all day long. Let it be a day for some stillness, for paying quiet attention to mystery, to beauty, to the sacred.
Cheap Grace
Cheap grace drives you to inconsequentiality. Grace drives us to consequentiality, not the kind that makes us self-important so much as the kind that pours out, overflows, gets everything that was all dry all wet again. We are NOT to sin more so that grace may abound. Just the opposite: we are to make our mark as creatures of a God that was not fooling around.
Who Wants to Be the President?
This President's Day, I want to say a prayer for them all, past, present and future, for seeking a job that strikes me as impossible. And I pray for a more peaceful political culture in which an impossible job might be redeemed.
Free Will
The truth is, when we choose to improve the world through selfless service we come to know a joy beyond our comprehension.
The Difference
It's the loving vigil and simple care we show others that makes the difference.
The Difference
It's the loving vigil and simple care we show others that makes the difference
Train
I've recently become something of a runner, and the more I've done it, the more convinced I've become that the running metaphors one finds all over the New Testament actually work quite well.
Tiger God
Today's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews is all about discipline. God disciplines God's sons and daughters. The message is that God's discipline is an expression of God's love.
The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living
Sometimes religion can be a means of escape from the urgent realities of now.
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