Apprentice 2 Jesus

People

  • Change is going to come

    One of the fun things in my life right now is working with organizations who are touching the “least of these.” Lately I’ve been meeting with folks who have found passion for change in a particular area of society. They are invested with passion and look for true change to come. They are in it… Read more

  • The deep, sustaining beauty of relationships

    “I awoke this morning with a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself to me in his gifts? I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the… Read more

  • The health of relationships

    There have been a couple of incredible studies spanning decades looking into the lives of people to determine what makes people happy. What is success? Read more

  • People will forget me

    Arthur Brooks in his book, From Strength to Strength, gives brutal assessments. People will forget me. My striving for “significance” is going to come to nothing. But the key is this: Obsessing over the future squanders the present. Read more

  • The hard work of love and friendship

    “When we see love as the will to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming responsibility, the foundation of all love in our life is the same… Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we… Read more

  • The messy spirituality of Rich Mullins

    Rich Mullins was a musical hero to me. I didn’t have the Beatles or Bob Dylan. But in the Christian world and the plastic music of that time, Rich was real to me. In a time and place when you felt like you had to “look good” on the outside, Rich was a mess on… Read more

  • Just dance… or write… or SOMETHING!

    A high school school teacher asked her students to write a living author to give them advice. Only Kurt Vonnegut responded. His letter is wonderful. Read more

  • Finding the depth of life

    Frederick Buechner died this week at the age of 96. While I did not read a lot of his work, I knew people who read his work and those people have a depth to them I truly admire. David Brooks as a great tribute to him in his column this week. Read more

  • The unvarnished private thoughts and opinions

    “I, like all other human beings, expose to the world only my trimmed and perfumed and carefully barbered public opinions and conceal carefully, cautiously, wisely, my private ones.” — Mark Twain Tough in the age of social media. My opinions aren’t exactly carefully barbered, but they are somewhat cut to look a little neater. Read more

  • “Last Third Living”

    A concept that has been rattling around in my head the last few weeks is what I’ve labeled “Last Third Living.” The Lord willing, I am in the last one-third of my life. How do I want to finish? Read more