This week marks the 2 year anniversary since the death of my brother David in a car accident. Grief is something that we all face ill-prepared. We do our best to sanitize death, distance ourselves from it, and avoid the emotions related to it. Even the word grief isn'
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It seems that each day we discover a new thing to make us angry about partisan-politics. The more partisan we become, the harder it is to see our friends, family, and neighbors in three- (or even two-) dimensional ways. Mask-wearers want to sacrifice the freedom our troops fought for. Anti-maskers
Judas Iscariot was (possibly) a member of the Sicarii, a group of "dagger men," known for their covert assassinations in an attempt to overthrow the Roman occupation of Judea. Simon the Zealot was, well, a Zealot, a political group also wanting the violent overthrow of Rome. Simon, Andrew,
Social Sin Jesus was sinless, guiltless, and perfect. Right? Jesus didn't need forgiveness for anything. Right? So why does Jesus pray, "Forgive us our sins"? John the Baptist was baptizing "with water for repentance." People would come to him, confess their sins, and would
Sorry About That. Our last newsletter was sent March 21. We were 3 weeks into living in D.C. We were a couple of weeks into a citywide lockdown. The national daily death count was in the dozens. And it seemed like years worth of events had happened in just
In the first century church, there was a lot of debate around what you could or could not eat. Some of this had to do with the fact that Gentiles were joining this new, little sect of Judaism called "Christianity." The Jewish Christians assumed that the Gentile Christians
When there is violence against a black person, one of the most common questions I see on social media from my fellow white people is, "Why does this have to be about race?" Assuming the best of those asking the question, I think this comes out of an
Last week, we talked about the need to change before things go stagnate, as well as the near inevitable downturn in an organization when a change is instigated. Today, I want to talk about four things to keep in mind when thinking about organizational change. 1. Keep vision in front
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