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Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

The Friendship Recession: Part 2 – Friendship as Both Needed and Discovered

is transformed into something much more important, something vital to the life of the world, when the people who share the table are engaging in the practices of love and of thinking.

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

The Friendship Recession: Part 1 – Learned Loneliness

We have learned ourselves out of covenant relationships, and this is the core of learned loneliness. Covenants seem archaic because so many are not willing to say: I will do my part, even if, for a time, you aren't doing your part.

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Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Authenticity and Humility in the Noise of Greatness

It does not take courage to be authentically yourself; it takes humility.

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Leadership and Business, Spirituality

God’s Will and Vocation

"...a job is a way of fulfilling a vocation, and particular jobs - if we are reflectively learning through them, may generate an evolution in our vocation. A key to making this important point real is being aware of God working in you through a particular job."

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

A Meaning of Otherness: Colossians 3

Whether it is Bible reading or living in a home, we metaphorically translate what is foreign into familiarity and move what is to what ought to be. That is, overcoming otherness is bringing our uniqueness to a situation not originally intended to accept it, and then translating and transforming the situation so the uniqueness can feel at home.

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

2022 in Review: Part 3 – The Year in Art

We may need again to become local and to direct our gaze to humans and particular scales and scopes.

Featured PostArt, Artifice, Authenticity, Community, protest, Spirituality2 Comments
Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Covenant

I will do my share even if, for a time, you aren’t doing your share.

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

Sacrifice for the Common Life

It may have been the first human, the first common thing she heard in a long while.

Featured PostA Corporate Agenda, Authenticity, Modern Life, Spirituality2 Comments
Politics and Society, Spirituality

The Moral Stakes in Being Authentic

"It turns out that the concept of common goods is constitutive of pursuing one’s interests." 

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

Moral Ideals and the Pathology of “Doing Your Best”

"... Development itself constantly changes the self’s possibilities such that what would count as one’s ‘best’ transforms in ways that are at once real and out of view."

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The Sustenance of the Private Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuJk1c7An8

Authenticity and Academic Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oklxrBVTAI8

Arendt Beyond the Individual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsXOHPWYu8

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