• Elimination Challenge

    I love Top Chef — in truth, I am a bit obsessed and would love to be on the show. So I tend to think about life as a series of Quick Fires and Elimination Challenges (all followed by Judge’s Table). Today’s challenge came this morning when I woke…

  • Integrating Faith & Politics

    Here is the audio from the message/discussion on integrating faith and politics from this past Sunday’s service at Riverfront Family Church. The format was that I opened with a few observations from the scriptures to set-up the topic, I then inter…

  • Almost (But Not Quite) Random Reflections

    Watching the coverage of NY State passing the marriage equality bill, along with a couple of other events in my life lately, have caused me to really reflect on a couple of things. First, I was surprised by the NY State situation on two levels — …

  • Identity

    Identity is a complicated thing. But developing a healthy sense of our identity is critical to developing a healthy emotional life, relational life, and spiritual life. Identity is also almost always multi-faceted, filled with what can be a health…

  • Lessons on Leaving Well

    Over the years I have learned some lessons about how to transition out of jobs well (and how not to). I am very happy with how my last transition has gone. I feel like I have left well, maintained and even strengthened relationships, and avoided b…

  • Post Down

    Just a heads-up… I took down a post from yesterday about “leaving well”. The post was meant to simply observe the dynamics of leaving organizations and also to affirm the organization/company I am currently leaving for doing an excellent and pro…