The longer I’ve found myself in leadership the more I’ve found myself using aphorisms or saying to communicate important lessons or principles. Many are from other sources, some are my own (those without a source). “Cooperation happens at the speed of trust.” James N. Mattis “Idiots rarely lack confidence.” “Character is fate.” – Heraclitus ‘People…
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Hear! Hear!
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate July 7, 2020The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with…
An untenable life
Our society has been living on a knife’s edge. COVID-19 is making that arrangement untenable. The great recession of 2007 was an opportunity for many of us to recognize–perhaps for the first time in a generation–that our economic way of life is precarious at best. In that moment, the bursting of the mortgage-backed securities bubble…
In search of a deeper life
I happened upon this video of a journalist and his friends who coverted a little shed into a writer’s studio. It’s short, so take a look: I love the simplicity and the vision of this project. What a wonderful way to use materials that would, otherwise, be thrown into a landfill. Also, it’s a fantastic…
We’re called to put racism to death
A fundamental theological conviction of the Christian faith is that all humanity is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). In light of the death of George Floyd, however, I feel I need to be more specific. Black men are created in the image of God and, as a consequence of this, not only are we to honor this image in them but also to treat them with the dignity that has been bestowed upon them by their creator.