The Intersection of Faith and Culture
“Why did you put your career on the shelf for a decade to focus on marriage, family, and ministry?” With the instinct of a newshound, my editor unknowingly asks the one question that cuts to the very core of my identity. It threatens my sense of coherence and it has […]
Success is one of the dirtiest temptations of the devil. — Madeleine L’Engle In his book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years,” the venerable Donald Miller quotes another author in saying that writers love having written. I can’t allow myself to be content with that. Writers aren’t the only […]
Mike Carnegie is the assistant captain of the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), but if you met him, you would never know. He rarely, if ever, speaks of his accomplishments — of which he has many, including a World Indoor Lacrosse Championship for Team Canada in 2010 […]
A friend recently congratulated me on my “absolute liberty,” as he put it. “You should try it,” I said glibly. “It’s scary, but it’s fun.” He said that he was working on it. Then I felt like a jerk, because really, who am I to act as if I’m the […]
We are all asked to do more than we can do. Madeleine L’Engle I never loved writing as much as I did when all I did was think about it, while sitting at a temp desk, or standing behind a coffee counter, or moving from table to table with an […]
The problem with most career advice, it seems to me, is twofold: First, we are told that we can do whatever we want, and then when we try to do whatever we want, we are told that we can’t do whatever we want. It is rare to see a week […]