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Sounds Like Kindness
Read more: Sounds Like KindnessI recently posted on my Facebook page the meme featured here with a quote by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I added the question, “What do you think of this, friends?” A hearty conversation ensued. And I am generally quite proud of my friends and followers because they don’t back down from a good discussion,…
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3 Signs You Might Not Actually Believe in Hell
Read more: 3 Signs You Might Not Actually Believe in HellThe list is below, but to start the convo, I invite you to first watch this 2 minute clip from Seinfeld: If you are a Christian, here are three signs that you MIGHT NOT actually believe in hell. (I am not arguing whether or not there is a hell. I am just discussing what…
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It Needs to Look Like Love
Read more: It Needs to Look Like LoveYesterday, I posted the following on my Facebook page: How would you advise someone whose lover a) demands strict adherence to a set of rules or else, and b) uses life’s disappointments and tragedies as ways of getting their attention, and c) claims to have stood by as a murder took place–when Read more […]
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15 Things That Make Me Happy
Read more: 15 Things That Make Me HappyMy monthly gratitude list: Emails, notes, text-messages and phone calls from my kids. Every evening, a man who lives in an apartment across the street from my building in San Diego is out front with his broom and dustpan, sweeping the humble sidewalk. It may be that he is paid to Read more […]
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Weary of the threat. In love with the miracle.
Read more: Weary of the threat. In love with the miracle.“What sorrow awaits you.” This is a phrase recorded in the Gospels, and attributed to Jesus. He said it over and over and over. Do you know who the “you” is? Who has sorrow awaiting them–in Christ’s eyes? In Matthew 23, Christ is talking to the enforcers of the law, the very law from which…
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“We Are Not Mahogany” (FREE chapter)
Read more: “We Are Not Mahogany” (FREE chapter)Chapter 1: Kampala, Uganda, East Africa My name is Thursday. They call me that because I was born on a Thursday. I hate my name. The year is 2001, and I am 15 years old. I grew up in a classroom. My mother was very young when I was born. Until I Read more […]
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Are You Hard-Headed or Heart-Headed? (5 Q’s reveal the answer)
Read more: Are You Hard-Headed or Heart-Headed? (5 Q’s reveal the answer)Hopefully we all have passion, conviction and principles. But as we engage with others, do we allow these passions to make us better, smarter and stronger? Or do they diminish our essence? Here are five questions I ask myself in an attempt to be heart-headed instead of hard-headed: Have Read more […]
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Why a Donkey?
Read more: Why a Donkey?Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem is celebrated and remembered by many people today. The idea of the Christ riding on a donkey as people declare, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,” strikes me in a new and fresh way today. Whether you take the account as fact or allegory, I…
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Invite Delight: Creating space for conversations that matter
Read more: Invite Delight: Creating space for conversations that matterIs the space around you beautiful? I didn’t ask if it was fancy or expensive or lavish, I asked if it was beautiful. For example, Ugandans tend to keep their yards swept clean. Even if the space around the home is mostly dirt, they use the dried fronds of the mukonzkonz (“moo-CONES-cones”) Read more […]
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When do we become good?
Read more: When do we become good?On a recent episode of NPR’s “This American Life,” this question was posed: “When do people become bad?” A professor very wisely replied that he thought that this was the wrong question. He offered instead that the question should be: When do people become good? I think I agree. Perhaps our focus on Read more…
