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...