Listen to the commentary Do you have kids?  If you’re a parent, you’ve learned a lot about life through the unavoidable assignment of shepherding them through the young-and-cute stages to the old-enough-to-know-better era when they drive you nuts and make you ponder escape strategies. If the “whose kids are these oddballs?” phase hit you where […]

Listen to the commentary What time is it? Don’t ask Phil Connors that question: for him, it really didn’t matter. In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Phil (played by Bill Murray) was stuck in a strange time loop, repeating the same day, continuously. If life isn’t moving toward some significant future horizon – if every

Listen to the commentary Allow me to import some thinking from leadership in organizational life and apply it to real life. Most people live with either a passive or reactive mindset: passivity resigns leadership to someone else, while reactivity operates with no agenda other than to operate defensively in response to uncontrolled and unforeseen circumstances.

Listen to the commentary   I don’t know when you’ll read this. Maybe you’re sneaking a look at your incoming emails today, during your holiday break; or, perhaps you’ve allowed the pile to grow until Wednesday morning, after the hot-dogs and sparklers wore out their welcome, and we’re connecting mid-week. Here’s the question: is America’s

Listen to the commentary   Halftime. Bob Buford – a dear friend and mentor from 1986 until his death in 2018 – made that concept – halftime – one of the banner themes of his Kingdom calling. The idea – modeled in football – that the break in the middle allows a reframing of strategy

Listen to the commentary   Perhaps, some self-disclosure is in order: in multiple views of modern western society, I am among the ringleaders of what is, by the definition created by sociologist John Lofland in 1966, a Doomsday Cult (“a group that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism”). By that definition, I’m clearly within those parameters.

Listen to the commentary School’s out! For the last few weeks, academies at every level have been marking the end of their school years, releasing their charges for Summer. In each setting, the finishers have been honored through commencements that recognized the students who were completing that phase of their get-ready-for-life season, under their care.

Listen to the commentary   Today is a big, big day, but I’m going to start this Monday the way we do every week, with a meaningful five minute conversation about something you probably won’t hear anywhere else today. If I’m being redundant – or, just echoing the voices that are screaming from the culture for

Listen to the commentary Memorial Day: today is a holiday for you, denoting the 1.1 million men and women who gave their lives while in military service to America during times of war and conflict. It was first observed in 1868, following the end the Civil War that took 498,332 soldiers’ lives on both sides

Listen to the commentary   Next weekend is a “biggie” if you are part of the Jewish or Christian faith communities. Both mark Pentecost with historic significance. For Jews, it’s the culmination of their annual Passover observances. For Christians, it marks the date when – in keeping with Jesus’ promise to His Apostles – the