Books

Retaining Cross-Cultural Talent

July 25, 2010

I referenced some quotes and thoughts from Michael Malone’s The Future Arrived Yesterday in the past week and wanted to highlight one more and make a slightly different application given my own context.In the email I mentioned to my friend Malone wrote, “Smart companies (and countries) are going to have to learn to perpetually scour [...]

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Some Thoughts on the Percy Jackson Book Series

June 24, 2010

I’ve confessed elsewhere here that I benefit greatly from reading fun books because 90% of what I read is academic or heady stuff or is pretty reflective in nature. Here’s another expression of how I’ve balanced out some of that of late.I just finished five books in a series titled Percy Jackson & The Olympians. [...]

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Parting of the Ways

November 13, 2009

I’ve shared that one of my proactive ways this fall to manage my stress this fall has been my reading of the Harry Potter books. I’ve learned over time that just stopping working isn’t enough to help me chill out. I have to be proactive to get my mind into something else that is relaxing [...]

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Inspired Patriotism

October 12, 2009

Ok, I apologize if you own a copy of this but I’m not looking to make black and white judgments, but I took this picture a couple months ago in a bookstore. I was walking by a table and a “what the….” went through my mind as I saw the American Patriot’s Bible.For full disclosure, [...]

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Some Miscellaneous

October 5, 2009

Here are some quick random hits: My wife asked recently what I was reading. I answered with a one word, very caveman-esque response “book.” I’ve found that my emotional capacity at any given time can maybe be measured by the number of words I use to respond to questions. It’s been a one-word season for [...]

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Silence (Review)

September 25, 2009

I already shared a few thoughts about Silence by Shusaku Endo that were anchored in the prologue to the book, but wanted to give a few more thoughts after finishing the book.This book deals with two key issues, the first of which is contextualization or issues pertaining to the gospel and culture. The second of [...]

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My Bookstore

September 17, 2009

Whether you are a long-time reader or not, I invite you to check out my personal bookstore via amazon. There’s a link on the navigation menu to it, but you can visit it at this link:Beav’s BookstoreI’ve chosen to include a handful of books in a variety of categories that I would wholeheartedly recommend if [...]

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Is Personal Courage a Prerequisite to See Truth?

February 23, 2008

Howard Thurman believed it is, as he wrote in his devotional classic Meditations of the Heart. He writes, “It is a fearful admission that courage is required to see the true thing. So much of my vision is blurred by my fears, my anxieties, my narrow self-interests that I find difficulty sometimes in giving full [...]

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Preparing Your Horse

February 8, 2008

I’m in between two medical appointments right now – one for having blood drawn and the other to have a procedure to have an ingrown toenail removed – and I’ve been rereading something that was passed on to me a while back from Larry Osborne’s book A Contrarian’s Guide to Knowing God. In addressing the [...]

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