Hey Reader, A few weeks ago, I started drafting the thoughts below about quiet leadership and Fairtrade Month. Then war broke out in Israel. And…a 27 year-old family acquaintance committed suicide...
Hey Reader, Originally, I envisioned this newsletter as primarily looking at business through the lens of faith. Funny thing happened, though. I almost accidentally turned the lens around and looked...
Hey Reader, Readers with a keen eye will note that I was AWOL for a bit and that you received this on Friday, not Wednesday. I’m excited to be back after a bit of a late summer hiatus and free of...
Hi Reader, Would Karl Marx open a business? We’ll never know, but one of his modern disciples did just that. Gabriel Sims-Fewer from Toronto is both staunchly anti-capitalist and entrepreneurial. His...
“Be all that you can be” was one of the longest running Army recruiting slogans. It was brought back for another tour of duty earlier this year. It works well because the Army’s goals and challenges...
Have you ever prayed in the middle of a 1:1 with your boss? In the middle of a sales call or board meeting? Should you? What did Jesus do? I share some lessons I’ve learned about navigating the...
Tim Keller knew me. We’d never met. I’d never even heard him speak in person. But Keller, the author and founding Pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian, “got” me. His teaching resonated with my...
Churches generally stink at teaching how to be generous. Most excel at explaining why to give, but whiff completely on how to go about it. Granted, some churches have begun to host classes and...
Would you do karaoke with your co-workers? Salsa dancing? Shots? Work social events trigger the full range of emotional reactions. Fun, fear, gratitude, revulsion. There’s a reason the TV show The...
Some Easter trivia for you. Wednesday is the only day of Holy Week that we don’t know what Jesus did. After a hectic Palm Sunday and two days of confronting the establishment, healing, and...