I was listening to a Ted talk about rebuilding trust. The speaker is a Harvard business professor who took on the challenge of helping a multinational corporation address several serious breaches of internal and public trust. She talked about the three essential building blocks of trust: empathy, authenticity and logic. I asked myself, how might […]
There’s a reason God addresses idolatry in the first commandment. The temptation to be like God or at least live in the fantasy of being revered as a god is very real today. For those who want to develop a religion based around themselves as a deity, there’s now a game for that. It’s called Godhood. […]
The apostle Paul complimented the people of Thessalonica that they took God at His Word. First Thessalonians 2:13 reads, “We thank God constantly for this: that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word […]
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? 21st century gardeners use everything from coffee grounds to compost to egg shells to fish to enrich the soil and encourage the production of more abundant crops. But if you’re desperate, there’s a commercial product called Miracle Grow. And it really works! Let’s apply that to […]