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Wonder.
Jul 6, 2025
Wonder.
Jul 6, 2025

Your confusion will give way to wonder.…

Jul 6, 2025
Metamorph.
Jul 1, 2025
Metamorph.
Jul 1, 2025

The evangelical church is not the enemy.…

Jul 1, 2025
Faithfulness.
Jun 29, 2025
Faithfulness.
Jun 29, 2025

Larger crossroads require all three stages in the cave…

Jun 29, 2025
Communion.
Jun 25, 2025
Communion.
Jun 25, 2025

Silence is the context for communion…

Jun 25, 2025
Emptiness.
Jun 22, 2025
Emptiness.
Jun 22, 2025

Heard the story of the novice monk?…

Jun 22, 2025
Paradigms.
Jun 12, 2025
Paradigms.
Jun 12, 2025

Think about the paradigm shifts required to lead well.…

Jun 12, 2025
The Cave.
Jun 12, 2025
The Cave.
Jun 12, 2025

Maybe it’s time to find your cave.…

Jun 12, 2025
Nómada.
Jun 8, 2025
Nómada.
Jun 8, 2025

I’m learning what it feels like to live as a nomad.…

Jun 8, 2025
Fathering.
Jun 2, 2025
Fathering.
Jun 2, 2025

Being a father is easy. Being a good father is not.…

Jun 2, 2025
Between.
May 26, 2025
Between.
May 26, 2025

Keeping your head in the clouds and your feet on the earth…

May 26, 2025
Alive.
Apr 18, 2025
Alive.
Apr 18, 2025

There was a young psychiatrist called Hector…

Apr 18, 2025
Awe.
Apr 1, 2025
Awe.
Apr 1, 2025

I believed him, but mercifully I did not pay…

Apr 1, 2025
Awakening.
Mar 29, 2025
Awakening.
Mar 29, 2025

Don’t waste the last 12 days of Lent…

Mar 29, 2025
Adventure.
Mar 23, 2025
Adventure.
Mar 23, 2025

I flew into Madrid today…

Mar 23, 2025
Timeless.
Mar 18, 2025
Timeless.
Mar 18, 2025

”Cast Away” with Tom Hanks…

Mar 18, 2025
Fearless.
Mar 15, 2025
Fearless.
Mar 15, 2025

As we approach Saint Patrick’s day…

Mar 15, 2025
Questions.
Mar 4, 2025
Questions.
Mar 4, 2025

I finished a siding repair yesterday…

Mar 4, 2025
Unlearning.
Feb 26, 2025
Unlearning.
Feb 26, 2025

Lent invites us to reflect upon our “demons”…

Feb 26, 2025
Stability.
Feb 11, 2025
Stability.
Feb 11, 2025

The crux of being an effective leader is…

Feb 11, 2025
Practice.
Feb 11, 2025
Practice.
Feb 11, 2025

How we need a rock of internal stability…

Feb 11, 2025
Temptation.
Jan 29, 2025
Temptation.
Jan 29, 2025

Jesus faced three challenges we all must face…

Jan 29, 2025
Influence.
Jan 28, 2025
Influence.
Jan 28, 2025

How far is your influence meant to extend?…

Jan 28, 2025
Weakness.
Jan 24, 2025
Weakness.
Jan 24, 2025

I’m sitting in the cabin above right now…

Jan 24, 2025
Anamcara.
Jan 18, 2025
Anamcara.
Jan 18, 2025

This icon was given to me by a true anamcara…

Jan 18, 2025
Flexible.
Jan 11, 2025
Flexible.
Jan 11, 2025

I love to travel, but travel is inherently uncertain…

Jan 11, 2025
Streams.
Jan 4, 2025
Streams.
Jan 4, 2025

Today’s question: Where does your nourishment come from?…

Jan 4, 2025
New.
Dec 29, 2024
New.
Dec 29, 2024

How might you move into this new year utterly rooted?…

Dec 29, 2024
Affair.
Dec 21, 2024
Affair.
Dec 21, 2024

This greatest of all Christian revelations is that…

Dec 21, 2024
Irrational.
Dec 14, 2024
Irrational.
Dec 14, 2024

In the face of loss the most audacious act of all is unrestrained joy.…

Dec 14, 2024
Metis.
Dec 4, 2024
Metis.
Dec 4, 2024

Mystical peace leads to effortless action, or what the ancients called Metis…

Dec 4, 2024

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