Steve Jobs said ” Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” So true. Most of us are far too comfortable with…
Today marks the start of a new Church Year on the Orthodox calendar, and, like all New Year's celebrations, this offers us a moment to reflect and reorient our actions…
I was watching a well-known leadership teacher speak recently (I like to keep up with this world since I find this both helpful and cautionary) and he was commenting about…
Unity is a concept that is as old as humanity. It permeates the stories of history, the attaining of unity, the betrayal of unity, and the loss of unity. American…
I knew a man once who loved to hear sermons about fire and brimstone. He was himself, an indulgent man who wasted his life on behaviors that we should not…
Winston Churchill once said "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime, in your life."
I'm not sure I trust the convictions of a man with no…
It's amazing how quick folks get upset if they feel like they are being bossed around. I had a couple come to see me once about how to raise their…
Queen Elizabeth once said, "Grief is the price we pay for love." And that is true, in part, but not the whole picture. In fact, I'm convinced in our modern…
It shouldn't be surprising to any of us. How we think, what we think, when we think, and when we don't think, shapes our choices, our priorities, and our actions.…
C.S. Lewis, in The Weight of Glory, writes: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting…