“What if you fail?” The question was posed to me in a book group last week by the leader. It didn’t have much to do with the book, but the question stuck in my teeth. I need to chew on it for a while. I have never felt like more of a failure than during [...]
My friend @markrsmith asked me recently: What do you do when your world turns upside down? How do you cope? There is a part of me that thinks I ‘should’ give an expected answer from someone who claims to have faith. Like, I have faith that the world will turn right-side up. Or, I have [...]
I have the great honor to be a teaching assistant in my seminary’s Speech/Communication Department. Yes, we ask grad students to take a public speaking course. In fact, a year-long course is required of all first-year students. One of the things we do to help people improve is tape them on prepared material that then [...]
Recently I was sitting in a coffee shop chatting with a dude. When it came out that I am a student at a seminary (a graduate school dedicated to the training of Christian pastors, spiritual leader, theological thinkers, and the occasional philosopher) he told me about his own experience of growing up only on occasion [...]
I am allergic to bee stings, but recently I realized that I cannot live my life in fear of bees. What would life be like if I never went outside during bee season? If I need to fight the fear of bees in order to live, really live, life then I will fight the bees. [...]