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Best of the Blog: Commercialism, God Wants you to Slow Down and What If?

I'll be out of cell phone range and won't have internet access all week, so I'm featuring the "best of the blog." Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I'll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives!

Commercialism and Faith, The Effect of Commercials on the Human Brain

This article is part one of a three-part series on the cultural language we speak here in America, and how it...

Best of the Blog, Pat Robertson, New Years Resolutions Stink, and Following God and Farming

I'll be out of cell phone range and won't have internet access all week, so I'm featuring the "best of the blog." Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I'll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives!

A Response to Pat Robertson's Comments about Haiti

Perhaps the most popular blog entry with more than 500 comments and 8600 Facebook Shares, I wrote this in response to Pat...

Best of the Blog, Pat Robertson, New Years Resolutions Suck, and Following God and Farming

I'll be out of cell phone range and won't have internet access all week, so I'm featuring the "best of the blog." Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I'll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives!

A Response to Pat Robertson's Comments about Haiti

Perhaps the most popular blog entry with more than 500 comments and 8600 Facebook Shares, I wrote this in response to Pat...

Creating Memorable Scenes

My friend Angela Todd is an interior designer who read A Million Miles a few weeks ago. The book caused her to reflect on her story, and because she has something of an entrepreneurial spirit, she decided to start telling a better story with her life. Specifically, she decided to start creating more memorable scenes. Some other friends were at the house and we were working on a video and Angela told us of her weekend visit to a local fountain with her nieces. They were all playing in the...

Does Your Culture Teach You to See People's Differences?

A good friend and I were hanging out the other day and she asked  about church, if I went, where I went and so on. That's a blog for another day, or perhaps a book, or perhaps a few slips of paper put into a wooden box and then buried. My friend had recently had a baby, and I asked her if having a child made her want to attend church more. I was surprised when she answered that it did not. My friend grew up in an extremely conservative family in a conservative small town and attended a...

The Greatest Storyteller I know

Today I get to drive north to Canada and join some friends as we travel up to Bob Goff's lodge. I tell the story of Bob in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Actually, I only tell part of Bob's story. Most of Bob's story is too unbelievable to relay in a book and have anybody actually believe any of it. I met Bob while kayaking about 50 miles from the nearest road. He'd built a beautiful lodge near a Young Life camp where he could practice hospitality with the staff at Young Life and also e...

Best of the Blog: Cynical Leaders, Negative Character Traits and Black and White Thinkers

I'll be out of cell phone range and won't have internet access all week, so I'm featuring the "best of the blog." Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I'll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives!

Leaders Aren't Cynical, The Character Trait that Might be Holding You Back

Cynicism and immaturity go hand in hand. Cynicism is, essentially, the desire to disassociate or the fear of ...

Excerpt from Bittersweet, from Shauna Niequist

My friend Shauna Niequist has a book coming out and I asked her if I could feature an excerpt. The book is Bitter Sweet, thoughts on Change, Grace and Learning the Hard Way. Congrats on the new book, Shauna. Here you go:

My best friend Annette and I laid on our towels until we realized that someone was standing in our sun. We squinted up at a big man with a big camera wearing a Girls Gone Wild hat.

He told us that if we went out in the water and kissed and took off our bikini tops, he'd give...

Sunday Morning Music, Katie Herzig and Matthew Perryman Jones

I've not had a Sunday Morning Music feature in a couple months. Just lost track of it. But Katie Herzig was in town and I got to see her at the Doug Fir and all of us remembered that she was one of America's greatest singer/songwriters, and then following Matthew Perryman Jones on twitter reminded me of this song they sing together that has been a favorite for a year or so now. Actually, one of my all-time favorite music memories was hearing Matthew at a small, impromptu concert up in...

Do This One Thing and You'll Rise Above Your Peers

When I graduated high school, I'd not read a single book. If I didn't graduate last in my class, I was certainly close. In fact, one teacher protested I should graduate at all, and it was only a coo from counselor that got me out of high school at all.

It wasn't until I attended a politically conservative camp in Colorado that I started reading. The camp aimed to prepare kids for college, but it was also an indoctrination into a conservative political worldview. I certainly bought in for a...