Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
Category: Development
Quick Review: How to Think
I have greatly enjoyed Alan Jacobs’ How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. But at the time of writing, the e-book is $1.99 at last check so I’d encourage you to check it out if you haven’t…
Quick Review – Powerful
So today I got crushed by traffic as it took me 3 hours to get from my place of work, IGSL, to our kids’ school to pick them up. Manila traffic is…
Quick Review – Tribe: On Homecoming and belonging
A few weeks back I read Sebastian Junger’s Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. This wasn’t too long of a read, but full of interesting research, history, and assessment on modern society. I’m working through developing my…
Quick Review: The Plan
This is the third book I’ve read that is connected to the 2016 Cubs’ championship season. I am quite willing to read 100 more if more people write about that team 🙂 The…
The Virtues Vs. The Grocery Store: RE-ENTRY #2
In another reflection on life back from extended time in the developing world, any reflection on re-entry or reverse culture shock typically always includes some thoughts on the abundance…and perhaps excess…of grocery…
The Virtues Vs. The Soda Machine: Re-Entry #1
It’s the second straight summer we’ve been back in the United States and it’s the second straight summer of cross-cultural weirdness. Many are familiar with the concept of re-entry, it’s the idea…
Quick Review: Restoring Justice
I read a few weeks back Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice by Daniel W. Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong as one of several different peacemaking systems I’ve been reading…
Quick Review: Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific
I have been reading Bruce E. Barnes’ Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific and found it unbelievably helpful as one who has been working in Asian contexts for the last decade…