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Last night, I was on a Zoom call to pray for my Bible study leader’s health. He’s in the hospital on a ventilator, sick with covid. We prayed for a miracle. But I couldn’t help but think that the miracle happened a year ago when scientists used

Financial professionals are paid to predict the future. The challenge, as someone once said, is that making predictions is hard, especially about the future. Any future event is uncertain, and uncertainty brings risk, which is why the value of a dollar is worth more today than a dollar in the

New York City has GPS coordinates of 40° 43' 50.1960'' N and 73° 56' 6.8712'' W. But that doesn’t tell you much about the place. From those numbers you don’t see rays of sunset painted across an old church, you

Ministry doesn’t always have to look like working full-time in a church. It could look like finance or marketing or HR. In other words, broadly defined, “ministry” could be corporate America. That idea gets to the heart of an ongoing debate about business and how to create a flourishing

When you read this sentence, how do you interpret it? Do you try to understand what I intended to say, or do you draw your own conclusions? Does it matter when I wrote this sentence, or can the meaning of this sentence evolve over time? These questions represent a concept

Years ago I had the idea for this column. Many organizations aimed to make the world a better place, to motivate employees, to create purpose. At the bottom, however, these are spiritual questions, theological inquiries ill suited for the business mind. What is purpose? What motivates people, and why? What

Every month I host a gathering of my coworkers called Wine Chats, where we, you may have guessed, drink wine and chat. The topics are always different, always controversial, and always met with civility. I do this because we all need a model for how to have civil discourse among

Many Americans feel that the government should not be able to force its citizens to wear masks to flatten the curve. From what I understand, it’s a matter of individual liberty. Face freedom, if you will. Last week, in fact, the governor of Texas Greg Abbott banned such an

In a world where information costs less than bullets, you can be sure to find warfare waged in words rather than weapons. The soldiers in this war aren’t dressed up in military fatigues. They wear Nike sweatpants and slippers. They’re me and you. You can find a thousand

If you walked by a child drowning in a pond, would you save her? Of course you would. It would be inhuman not to. But what if that child were drowning in the town next to yours? What if she were in another country? Do you still feel the same