I have had a somewhat unusual summer. And so far as I’ve taken a little bit of actual vacation time, I actually don’t vacation much. I’ve never been one to enjoy vacation very much. Which isn’t to say I don’t like getting away. I do like the getaway; I like having days off. I like … Read More

The more conversations I have about the book Sacred Strides and dig into the themes in the stories, the more I find myself going back to some of my own source material, which is not to say the stories I wrote about my own life, but the words and the reflections and the teachings of … Read More

My last couple of weeks, two weeks really almost at the mark right now, have been turbulent; I would say they’d been rough. But that’s mostly just been turbulent. It’s been hard. Not because I wasn’t a part of and doing some really great things, I was. I had a wonderful time in Green Bay, … Read More

I have been, in some way, shape, or form, engaged in conversation about AI technology and our relationship with technology for a really long time. In 1999, or 2000, I read Ray Kurtzweil, his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines. And I was shocked if it was way beyond my understanding the terms he was … Read More

You have used the phrase or heard the phrase, ‘let’s make some memories’ or ‘let’s make some moments.’ If you pay attention to the podcast, you know that for the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the passage of time. It’s one of the things that came up a lot as I … Read More

It has been said, and I’ve come to believe this as a truth, that writing for an author is as much as anything else, a process of self-discovery, that one of the things that happen necessarily, in the process of writing, actually writing is that I see myself, I look into my own soul, I … Read More

If you pay attention to my life in any way, shape, or form, you know that I have a 12-year-old, almost 13, and a six-year-old; she just turned six. My six-year-old, I call her the bird. She has a really unique and interesting relationship with time. And over the last, I don’t know, three, four … Read More

I talk a lot about seasons, seasons of life, seasons of ministry seasons of work. I love the concept. I love the idea. I love the notion that for long stretches of time, somewhat indeterminate stretches of time, certain things are true certain things work. I like that there isn’t a stringent timeline; when we … Read More