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In 2019, my husband and I took a trip to Sedona, Arizona. We would spend our mornings hiking in the red rocks and then, in the afternoon, check out one of the wineries in Verde Valley. Our first afternoon, we wound up at a winery called “Javelina Leap.” The logo was a...

When I was a youth pastor, I went through a process of deep listening and demographic  research with the community where I served through a youth ministry innovation research initiative.1 I worked with largely well-resourced, high-achieving kids, and these kids and...

In 1948 a psychology professor named Dr. Bertham Forer distributed a detailed personality inventory to 68 of his students. It asked them a wide range of questions about their preferences, anxieties, and ways of engaging with others and themselves. The next week, he...

I was listening to an interview1 with a woman who had just written a book on mental illness in animals, and she said this: “When we try to get a bird to solve a puzzle, we tell ourselves we’re testing to see how smart the bird is, but all we're really testing is how...

For decades there was an aircraft company was known for safety and engineering excellence above all things. They made some of the best, most reliable aircraft in the world. Their market share grew and grew as they became the preferred aircraft of airlines all around...

I have to admit something: a few weeks ago, in my “scheduling rest” post, I originally had several references to rhythmic weeks, and even had a line that was something like, “you can read more about rhythmic weeks here” with the intention of linking to a blog post...