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July 2014

July 29, 2014

Leadership is Like Ice Cream

I have had a passion for ice cream my entire life. As a proud son...

July 26, 2014

Spiritual Life is Beyond Words

The deep, clear truths of spiritual life are beyond words. We try to use words...

July 24, 2014

Working at Our Own Speed

There are days when I love to catch a strong breeze and go skimming across...

July 22, 2014

Leadership Reveals Deeper Truths

I used to believe that leaders were people who told us what to do. When I...

July 19, 2014

Telling the Stories of Our Spiritual Lives

The story of your spiritual life may begin, "Once upon a time," or "A long...

July 17, 2014

Working to Catch Up

There are days when it feels like it is just too much work to catch up. There...

July 15, 2014

Leadership is Like Fingerprints

Almost anyone who has read a detective story or watched any television program knows the power...

July 12, 2014

Feeding the Fire of Spiritual Life

How do you feed the fire of spiritual life? At times, spiritual life almost roars...

July 10, 2014

Benedictine Work

I am an oblate connected to a Benedictine monastery. An oblate is a lay person...

July 08, 2014

Leadership is Not a Contest

I live in a culture that makes everything a contest. We take metaphors from sports...

July 05, 2014

Celebrating Spiritual Life

How do we celebrate the deepest things in our lives? I think it is a challenge to...

July 03, 2014

Thinking About Work

Will you spend more time thinking about work today, or tomorrow? I will probably invest...

July 01, 2014

Leadership is an Intimate Relationship

I know people who think that being a leader comes from having a certain title,...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Monk in the City

I was not born contemplative, nor was I born in a large city. I knew...

June 26, 2014

Working Together

My work is a combination of working on my own and working with other people. The...

June 24, 2014

What is Leadership All About?

What is leadership, anyway? Some people see leaders as Imperial Storm Troopers, enforcing rules and...

June 21, 2014

What is Healthy Spiritual Life?

What does healthy spiritual life look like? How does it feel? I know people who...

June 19, 2014

Working Uphill

Some days are all uphill. There are times when I start at the bottom of...

June 17, 2014

Leadership is Shaped Over Time

We think of leadership as happening dramatically. We face a crisis, and a leader steps...

June 14, 2014

Why Do We Hide from Spiritual Life?

We love life and health. We work very hard to be physically healthy, to build...

June 12, 2014

We Are Our Work

Why is our work so important to us? We are fixated on work. The challenges...

June 10, 2014

Leadership is Stimulating

There is nothing quite like that first leadership taste in the morning. It is a...

June 07, 2014

Day of Fire

My church has a thing about fire. It is not the church in which I...

June 05, 2014

Recovering Workaholic

I have an unhealthy relationship to work. For as long as I can remember, my...

June 03, 2014

How Does Leadership Begin?

I have been interested in leadership for longer than I can remember. What...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Where is Your Pain?

Most of us do not enjoy feeling pain. We do our best to hide from...

May 29, 2014

Working on Our Own

I was brought up to take personal responsibility for my work. Over and over I...

May 27, 2014

Leadership is Not a Checklist

Leading is not making sure you have covered your bases, checked all your boxes. There is always...

May 24, 2014

A Weekend to Remember

This is a weekend to remember. In the moments between sleeping in, grilling, sporting events,...

May 22, 2014

The Work of Growing Up

I spent a lot of my childhood working on growing up. I worked hard to exceed expectations...