I finished Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly today and it was really great. I’m not sure I need to give too much of an intro due to her enormous popularity through her TED talks…
Category: Spirituality
Quick Review: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
A couple of weeks ago I read Dan Ariely’s The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves. The book is loaded with research and stories that illustrate…
Pre-School Theology: I’m Here!
We’re in our last months of having a pre-schooler so the nostalgia is setting in. But we continue to have moments that remind us that the eyes of a pre-schooler always provide a…
The Problem of Paternalism
Before working cross-culturally in ethnic minority contexts, I never thought much about paternalism. Now after a decade of ethnic minority and cross-cultural experience, I think about it and talk about it almost…
Glass Houses
I’ve come across the popular idiom a few times recently “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” It’s something people say when someone criticizes hypocritically (and perhaps blindly) others for…
Choosing Pain
This past week our older two kids were riding bikes with their mom and they were out a long time. My wife relayed the story how my daughter, who has mild cerebral…
Pre-School Theology: Grief
A couple of years ago I wrote a post entitled “The Gift Our Fish Gave Us” as a reflection on how navigating the death of their fish after two years was developmental…
Paternalism and When Helping Hurts
Not too long ago I finished When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert. If you aren’t familiar – it’s an exploration of…
Dangers for Discerners: Elementary
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the Sherlock Holmes narrative, originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There have been two feature films released recently with the…