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

Listen to the commentary This week, I’ll be blowing-past one of life’s mile markers our human experience – our together life – characterizes as significant. Thursday is my 70th birthday. Last year, my 69th happened while I was in isolation at the City of Hope, just weeks following my life-saving stem cell transplant (shout-out to my donor,

Listen to the commentary   These are uncertain times, for sure. Historically, the second Sunday of May is cordoned-off as Mother’s Day; woe be to the man who schedules a tee-time that day, or makes plans that do not include honor and recognition for the mothers in his life, whether his own or his kids’.

Listen to the commentary   What is a “calling?” Ask that of “the Google” – the modern-day soup-to-nuts source of information – and, in less than a second, you’ll receive over 3 billion offers of insight. With that kind of instant and plentiful reaction, we should all be living lives of confidence and calling… right?

Listen to the commentary   There’s trouble brewing among some of the smartest folks in our world. Just a month ago, a group of prominent computer scientists called for a six-week time-out in the development of Artificial Intelligence. What are they worried about? In their open letter, they assert that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence