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The Gift of Wonder

By Lucy Strandlund

Feb 19, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I had just gotten out of my car in the parking lot of a World Market when my phone buzzed with a news alert. It was there, standing in the midst of concrete and cars, that I learned that Mary Oliver had died. My stomach sank, and I felt […]

Clutter Not, That Ye Be Not Cluttered

By Steven Bishop

Feb 13, 2019

This past week, I went a little Marie Kondo on the bookshelves in my office. If you don’t know who Marie Kondo is, she is the star of a Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and the author of the best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, now published in 30 countries. […]

Tender Sprigs and Tiny Seeds, Lofty Cedars and the Greatest of All Shrubs

By Rebecca Bridges Watts

Feb 6, 2019

Did you know that mustard plants are considered by many to be weeds? This is because they are plants that, by virtue of their tiny seeds, can spring up easily and spread to places where we may not have planned for them to grow. And when they grow, they really grow. Because of this, many […]

An Economy of Joy

By Steven Tomlinson

Jan 31, 2019

A guy I know on Wall Street invented a new way to trade derivatives and made more money than he can spend. I asked him: Why do you still come to work? He said, “Business is just an excuse to enjoy people.” I don’t expect to hear the gospel on Wall Street, but there […]

Now Is The Time!

By Melanie Jones

Jan 22, 2019

What happens to a dream, deferred? The year 1963 marked a monumental moment for America, when the Civil Rights Movement launched nonviolent protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, led by the young Black preacher and scholar the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the prison cell in Birmingham where King was arrested for […]