Brown’s research on leadership reads like a series of stories from a friend. Her witty insights and personal failures invite us as readers to consider our own stories, the ways we have led with courage and vulnerability, and the new paths we must take forward. This book has challenges and encouragement for anyone who desires to lead with their whole self, in or out of the workplace.
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Seeking Safety
The painful passage of a family fleeing persecution and the power of Covenant voices
Paying Attention to Death
It is perhaps commonplace to think of life as a blur. Lent asks us to slow down, to pay attention.
Big Q: What Are You Waiting For?
Pastor Carol Shimmin Nordstrom writes in her February devotional of the Covenant Home Altar about overhearing staff at a coffee shop talking about what they were waiting for—finishing college, the season opener for a college sports team, etc. She was surprised […]
As the Stone Gives Way
Practicing the Easter journey
Big Q: How do you engage with the season of lent?
The Big Q How do you engage with the season of Lent? March 8, 2019 I try to give up attitudes and behaviors I think God wants me to give up: anxiety, demeaning thoughts about others, materialism, short snide answers, [...]
Centered on Kids
When faced with the desperation of hurting children
in Mozambique, two couples took action.
Whole communities have changed.
Pastoring Through the Unimaginable
All funerals and memorial services are hard in their own way. Loved ones cry, friends struggle to speak suitable words, and family members hold up the best they can under the weight of sorrow. Every funeral hurts. —But some burn.
Savoring Life
Waheed’s poems give readers permission to sit with their pain and hold themselves gently in it. Readers are given permission to listen to the Spirit and work for their own thriving and the thriving of all in the spaces God has placed them.
Big Q: When did a total stranger go out of their way for you?
The Big Q When did a total stranger go out of their way for you? February 11, 2019 I experienced a flat tire on a lonely country road while working as a county public health nurse. A kind young man [...]
Timely and Timeless: The Character of Virtue Review
The Character of Virtue Letters to a Godson Stanley Hauerwas Eerdmans, 205 pages Reviewed by Don Johnson | February 6, 2019 Grandparenthood overwhelmed me and took my heart hostage. From November 2016 until August 2018 I had the unique privilege [...]
Found Moments: Presence at the Pump
Through practice, I’ve learned to use those very moments as markers to look for God’s presence. I’ve added “found moments” to the spiritual practices I pursue, and they have become as important to my spiritual health and connection with God as planned times of prayer, silence, or reading Scripture. The difference is that I don’t put them on my schedule—I let the Holy Spirit remind me to find the time throughout my day.