Faith

Time to unplug

It’s happening at Citizenship and Immigration Canada: It may be wishful thinking, but a Canadian government ministry has sent out a directive to its employees urging them to relax and not to

The basis for forgiveness

It’s often argued that we should forgive because we will feel better. “Not forgiving is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die,” said Anne Lamott. Forgiving is good

The Gospel and busyness

“The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine,” said Martin Luther. “Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it

Defining forgiveness

I’ve already had a great comment suggesting that the question of forgiveness is largely determined by how we define forgiveness. I think that’s exactly right. Before we can know whether we

Miller on prayer

Prayer is one of the themes that keeps coming up in Jack Miller’s book The Heart of a Servant Leader. The weapons of spiritual warfare, he writes, are humility and prayer. Make