Tag: inspiration
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Re-imagining Success
By now, lots of people have learned that Randy Pausch’s book The Last Lecture is heartwarmingly inspirational. It was a bestseller for over two years, between 2008 and 2011, and still comes up in comments from time to time now. I don’t remember exactly where I heard about it myself, but in someone’s wise article […]
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Renewal and Recommitment
Easter is a big day in church world. The biggest. The cliché, familiar from religion text books and every newspaper ever, is that “Easter is the holiest day in the Christian year.” How we measure degrees of holiness may not be crystal clear – we don’t have anything like a geiger counter or a thermometer […]
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A Few “Basic and Uncomfortable” Questions
What this book [Good News About Injustice] obliges us to do is ask ourselves some basic and uncomfortable questions that living in a comfortable culture may never have allowed us to ask before. First, what sort of God do we believe in? Is he concerned exclusively with individual salvation? Or does he have a social […]
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A Course in Miracle-Making
Brett, Regina. Be The Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible. New York: MJF Books, 2012. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project] Be The Miracle got to the Read Me Shelf from the sale table at Barnes and Noble, and was still wearing its “members pay only” sticker. I try to avoid buying […]
Matters of Interpretation 