What motivates you to do your best work?
Does anyone around you understand that?
Daniel H. Pink thinks he knows the answer to the first question.  And his answer to the second question is no.
In DRiVE: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Riverhead Books, 2009), Pink says most employers and educators use the “carrot-and-stick” approach.    Promise [...]

What are the results when a generation grows up with values symbolized and shaped by the Internet? Every voice can be heard but none is trustworthy.  Knowledge is readily available, but there’s too much of it to sift through.  A crisis anywhere in the world is your crisis vicariously, so that crisis itself seems less [...]

Do you treat your friends as “catch-and-release?” 
More importantly, do those outside the faith and the church think you will treat them that way?
Same Kind of Different As Me tells the story of Ron Hall, a wealthy Texas art dealer and his friendship with Denver Moore, a homeless Fort Worth black man with a violent [...]

It’s been over two years since I received a humbling phone call.  A pastor I have respected for years, Dr. Mel Palmer, asked if I would be willing to preach his funeral service.  Mel has been battling cancer for several years, and it seemed at the time the cancer had the upper hand.

The concurrence was hard to miss.
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck made news this week by asking American Christians to leave their churches if their pastors or congregations promote social or economic justice.  “Run as fast as you can” away from those churches, Beck counseled.
As I read/heard about Beck’s comments several times on Friday (newspaper, TV [...]