Listen to “And You Have So Many” By Fred Smith This being the week of Mother’s Day, I remember one of my father’s favorite stories about his mother. They lived in a very poor [...]
Listen to “Look Out for Pirates.” This morning I am in New York serving on a panel at the Praxis Redemptive Imagination Summit. Here is the assignment: “As tectonic shifts [...]
Listen to “Jars of Clay or Faberge?” A conversation this week with Dan Haseltine, the lead vocalist for the band Jars of Clay and the founder of Blood: Water Mission started me [...]
Listen to “More Than A Singing Cow.” It’s not often I ask someone to pray for me before going to a museum or library. But last year I did ask that of my brother-in-law [...]
Listen to “Catch a Wave.” Several years ago, our local Chamber of Commerce brought in a renowned demographer to talk with a large group of business and civic leaders about the [...]
Listen to “I Want Your Job.” People often ask how they can get a position as a grantmaker with a foundation. It seems sensible that donors with foundations would want help in [...]
Listen to “Nothing Left To Prove.” All of my ‘aha’ moments in life have come from reading, silence, or listening to others. Except one, and that was at lunch with a friend. We [...]
Listen to “A Better Life.” As I handed him the check for the work he had been doing for us he paused before folding it neatly and putting it in his shirt pocket. “Are you happy [...]
Listen to “All In Good Time.” It’s a familiar scene made even more so by movies and novels: the reading of the last will and testament. The somber family is seated [...]
Listen to “The Great Divide.” While guaranteed to be controversial, Michael Gerson’s essay The Last Temptation in the April issue of The Atlantic has captured 150 years of [...]
