just to be loved… can it be enough? My previous post offered the first two of five essential values for leaders to nurture and develop if...

It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together.  I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...

Less anticipated, though, was the extent to which the aesthetics of Alpine hospitality would so bless us.  Little things, like a welcome...

Today I’ll get on a bus with my wife and travel from Freiberg, Germany to Munich and then a train from there to Schladming, Austria, on...

It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective...

this article reminds me that it makes sense to think about values.  Here are some values that need adjusting… more or less. More...

When you talk to people and the subject of spirituality or faith comes up, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to use the word...

“the end of sex” as we know it, referencing an article about the dramatically diminishing sex lives of Japanese young people, as the joy...

previous post about “the end of sex as we know it” because it addresses an important trend in our culture.  But a convergence of...

“Japan’s under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren’t even dating, and increasing numbers can’t...

NOTE TO MY READERS:  I’m going to be moving my blog away from the Patheos website that presently hosts it, so if you’d like to be...