I’ve heard it said that in New York City it’s all about money and in L.A. it’s all about fame. I think that’s probably true. Still, the hunger for fame is more ravenous than any one city or industry. It pervades the whole of the Western world. We want to be bigger than our neighbor,Continue reading “Fame that brings Joy”
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This is Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYJVV7HuZw If you’ve never seen this video created to underscore David Foster Wallace’s remarkable words to graduates, I highly recommend it. “This is Water” speaks to the reality we all share and how we may choose— or feel led— to move through it. Although he speaks from a secular point of view, he uses theContinue reading “This is Water”
Special Ops
Lately it seems that every time I turn around I’m somewhere I don’t fit in. I keep listening to the voice inside my head that I’ve come to know and love as God’s, and it keeps leading me to the strangest places. I’m studying things deeply that I never thought I’d have any interest in—andContinue reading “Special Ops”
Why Growth Hurts
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently HeContinue reading “Why Growth Hurts”
Another voice of Elijah
“I worry about America’s boys. They are dropping out of high school at alarming rates, and contributing to a shift in college demographics that would have been unheard of even two decades ago. The average college campus in the U.S. is now nearly 60% female. As a woman I imagine this is suppose to makeContinue reading “Another voice of Elijah”
Heather Choate Davis 