Religion

Sometimes a book review and my experiences connect, and that triggers a chain reaction of books to read. I’m in one of those chain reactions now. I started with Theory U  which led to Bowling Alone  which led to reading Churchless . The last connec...

Back in February I ended my marriage of over 15 years. There were good times in the marriage but there were also times which were an absolute struggle. They were consuming me – pushing me to become better but also making me weary in the process. Through t...

Too many folks I know have decided that the world is going “to hell and a handbasket.” I for one am intrigued by the term and the idea that after centuries of human progress we’re suddenly plunging towards our demise as a society in what amount to th...

It’s difficult to disagree with people you perceive as wiser than you. Your initial response is that there must be something wrong with your thinking. That’s the feeling I had as I was reading Growth Has No Boundaries: The Christian’s Secret to a Deep...

It’s odd that a few centuries ago it would have been unheard of to be unaffiliated with a church.  Today, nearly the opposite is true.  How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor isn’t a book that explains this transition from scratch.  Instea...

A good friend and Christian life coach and I were talking and he mentioned the book A Hunger for Healing  was packed with insights and that I should read it. Most of the time when people make a recommendation for a book to read it takes me a while t...

When an author practically opens the book talking about being called out by his wife for not really doing what he said he would do, you know that it’s going to be an authentic look at the author himself, his struggles and growth. John Ortberg  shares his...

Most folks don’t describe Christianity with the adjective “mere.” However, C.S. Lewis isn’t most folks – rather, he’s a common man with an uncommon view. Mere Christianity  is the written record of what started as a series of BBC broadcasts to help expla...

While I’m firm in my faith as a Christian, I’m comfortable with my Buddhist brothers. I’m mindful of my Muslim friends. I say this knowing that in America there is still uneasy tension about the acts of a few Muslim extremists. In truth, I have a dee...

It was December 17th , 2012 when I finished reading A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World . Three days before my birthday and four days before I found out that my now ex-wife had filed for divorce. I had known it was coming, but ...

Have you ever had that twinge of pain as you realized how the years have gone by? Maybe it’s you see a friend’s child – and they’re not a child any longer. Maybe it’s the failing health of your parents and you remember when you didn’t want to cross yo...

In Destructive Emotions , the Dalai Lama pondered with Daniel Goleman about whether we are generally selfish or generally compassionate creatures. He framed it from the perspective of a classic philosophy question and shared his own idea that we’re bo...