Processing and profiting from failure: Moving from the swamp of failure to the zone of excellence (pt 3)
It would take me from the dismal swamp of failure to the bright horizons of what I would come to call the “zone of excellence.”
Wallace B. Henley
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Trump and the fragility of the American republic
The nation needs the positive, confident tone it conveyed — without the Trumpisms. Overall, it was a refreshing speech in an era characterized by a pseudo-intellectualism that treasures ambiguity and innuendo. Like it or not, Trump is blunt and head-on.
Processing and profiting from failure: Dare to re-engage (pt 2)
Somewhere over the dark ocean I looked at our sleeping baby daughter wrapped in a reindeer skin blanket that a thoughtful flight attendant had loaned us and felt anger and despair.
Processing and profiting from failure: A ‘Nuremberg trial’ (pt 1)
I know, because I experienced what seemed at the time catastrophic failure at the outset of my career.
Woke revisionism would make our history a rubble-pile
I believe we are deep into a season of the relapse of memory, the rebellion that inevitably follows, and the refiner’s fire when the consequences of relapse and rebellion set our cities ablaze.
Building the post-pandemic church: Developing the healthy church (pt 4)
Will the COVID-19 virus infect, sicken, and kill the body of Christ?
Building the post-pandemic church: Actions of the Jesus Church (part 3)
As we stand on this side of the pandemic gash in time and history, we must be careful where we set our gaze.
Building the post-pandemic church: Providential plagues (part 2)
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, as Mark Twain reportedly said. So, there is a distinct “rhyme” between what was happening in the age of Cyprian and Decius and our times.
Solving the mystery of why Donald Trump was elected president
However, no cryptanalysts have been able to decipher the mystery of Trump, because they are looking in the wrong places.
Building the post-pandemic church: Out of ashes (part 1)
The questions are on the lips of many leaders and their congregations: What will the post-pandemic church look like? What will arise from the ashes?
Calling for real prophets
The contemporary moment of madness prompts a call for real prophets to rise up and do what prophets do.
Is the end nigh for institutional Christianity?
For many churches and related religious organizations, it will be apostasy or the arena, compromise or the catacombs.
Trump: Messianic or demonic?
Sider and his colleagues have undertaken a risky business since their book could be dismissed as a gaggle of academics instructing us deplorables about how to vote for president.
How to have cities without police
Those eager to shrink or even eliminate police departments in their cities could learn much from the mutineers who, in 1789 revolted against Captain William Bligh and took over his ship, the Bounty.
Pandemic, pandemonium, and governments in crisis
The greater the official panic the more governments lay aside principle to get things under control.
Pentecost, Shavuot, and the ‘suicide pact’
There is a subtle creep of utilitarianism in their interpretation of the Bill of Rights, shoving aside principle.
Will COVID-19 kill the free republic?
Will an outcome of the crisis mean the loss of constitutional restraints on the state?
Accurate information in an age of disinformation: The 'itching ears' syndrome (pt. 2)
The establishment media now may lament so many “different places” as news sources, but they have no one to blame but themselves.
Civilization and moms: Centers amid increasing pandemonium
What is one of the strongest civilizational “centres” when everything spins and spins into increasing pandemonium?
Accurate information in an age of disinformation: Hubris collisions (pt. 1)
When the hubris of show-biz news gatherers crashes into the hubristic presidency matter and anti-matter careen into one another. What is obliterated is the information we the people need so urgently.
