In keeping with the Nativity theme from last post – It’s so easy to forget important aspects of Jesus’s experience and life that would have been significantly affecting, especially during His growing-up years and on the way His community would have seen Him. Let’s not forget – His was an outright scandalous beginning. His young […]

Last night during an interesting conversation with a very learned pseudo-family-member of mine, I tasted a new and interesting phrase that I haven’t heard before: “The space between reality and consensus.” We had been talking (aka he had largely been talking – I didn’t have too much to contribute) about current economic trends – cryptocurrencies, […]

I enjoy this time of year because it prompts thinking about Jesus’s origin story. I don’t experience this every year since it’s easy to zone out a little bit when you hear a story retold that you’ve heard 4,000 times, but this year something stood out to me. Why were Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem […]

Practicing this morning being open-handed with God. Taking a moment to re-offer into His ownership and control all the things that are most precious and important to me. If you haven’t tried that or done it recently, it’s scary and hard. Surrender is scary and hard. But it’s a way I try to make my […]

I recently listened to this talk show episode by Andrew Klavan. Interesting guy, interesting ideas, very long Republican rant. Not for the faint of heart or non-conservative. However, the last segment on the show was a journalistic editorial on the song White Christmas. It felt random – probably exacerbated by the fact that I wasn’t […]

Super interesting (and SUPER long) podcast here full of ideas about geopolitical predictions and network states and how the world will look in 5-10 years provided by guest Balaji S. Srinivasan. One very interesting concept he mentioned to was the fact that a pure, majority-rules democractic structure could theoretically be described as 51% democracy, 49% […]

Musing yesterday about God-given rights. My starting point in this musing as I ran down a Belfast bike trail yesterday afternoon, capitalising (yes, I’m using British spellings – when in Rome) on a window of not-rain between abnormally-hot and drizzle, was that we have a God-given right to purpose. However, reflecting further, I don’t think […]

Reflecting this morning on a decision-making framework that I had forgotten about until now. Some of the wisest among us (aka the wealth of thoughtleaders Tim Ferriss interviews on his podcast) have noted this truth and shared it with those of us who, like me, still forget about it most of the time and need […]

Another mass shooting rocked the States yesterday. At approximately 10am, someone opened fire during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, a neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Chicago. A suburb maybe 30 minutes from the house where my entire family was also celebrating the Fourth. This one is the latest in a string […]

My brother C and I had a conversation today that included how we observe and take in the people around us in our lives. He and I would both assess people as we meet them or interact with them to determine whether they are people with whom we would want to pursue some kind of […]