Fresh Prose...
"Grant that we may never forget that our common life depends on each other's toil." Book of Common Prayer
River
Flat like foccacia--but restlessexposed and pressed up to skylike souls. It tosses backclouds and starsand gazes up at God. ** I wrote this poem while lying on a dock along the Chester river, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. The river is beyond lovely -- but...
Eden. After they Fell.
This photo mesmerizes me.My daughter took it last week in Laoswhere she worked with a program that destroys bombs. Millions upon millions remainwedged into the countryside wherefields should flourish withrice and coffee andeveryone sits under their own banana tree....
Overseeding … in Fall
Only when the ground is raked, poked and bleeding, can new seed take root.
Bricolage: the art of being scrappy
Bricoleur: One who shapes the beautiful and useful out of the dump heap of human life. An old friend from my finance days — who went on to become an Anglican priest — once called me a bricoleur after French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Unsure if this was...
Creativity as Superpower — Literally!
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. Genesis 1:27-28. When you’re teaching management skills to systems engineers working in military...
Hope for Despairing CFOs (and the rest of us)
What does a sermon preached in 19th century Scotland have to do with today's business headlines? Plenty. Thomas Chalmers, the Scottish pastor/professor who taught moral philosophy at St. Andrews and theology at the University of Edinburgh, knew what makes the human...
Agreed, war is evil. But we’re naive to be surprised.
Today UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited hard-hit cities in Ukraine, where he met with victims of Russian atrocities. He called the war “evil.” Touring devasted neighborhoods, Guterres spoke emotionally of his own grandchildren. “I must say what I...
Swords to plowshares…a prayer for Ukraine
“Why do the nations rage? And the peoples plot in vain?” Prince of Peace, our hearts are filled with dread today about the dangerous brinkmanship playing out between Russia and Ukraine. We pray for “the rulers taking counsel together,” especially Presidents Zelensky,...
In the end, work will satisfy
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash “There is some good stone-work here,” said Gimli as he looked at the walls; “but some that is less good, and the streets could be better contrived. When Aragorn comes into his own, I shall offer him the service of stonewrights of the...
People over Profits – at Last
Photo by Kevin Mueller on Unsplash Huzzah for Steve Simon, Chairman and CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association. WTA’s Simon has been the one holding China’s feet to the fire over concerns for the safety and freedom of tennis champion Peng Shuai, who publicly accused...