G. K. Chesterton said there are two ways to get enough: (1) accumulate more and more or (2) need less. It’s obvious which option we’ve chosen in our culture and the results are disastrous. According to the Christian Science Monitor in 2003: The average debt for U. S. families with at least one credit card […]

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More from Friedman’s “A Failure of Nerve.” Actually this tendency to adapt to immaturity and to sabotage strength is so often characteristic of chronically anxious systems that a good rule of thumb for leaders who are trying to pull any institution out of regression is that when people start calling you “cruel,” “autocratic,” “heartless,” “hardheaded,” […]

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It’s interesting the assumptions people make. Several weeks ago I posted a Take Action item from Sojourners that took the position that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that the Religious Right (i. e. Falwell and Robertson) do not speak for all Christians when it comes to politics. This post has generated […]

I’ve been sick as a dog for the past two days. Mostly a headache and nausea. It started Saturday morning in Austin. Heather drove the full eight hours back to Tulsa with me moaning and groaning beside her. It was miserable. She took great care of me. I have an awesome wife. We got back […]

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After several days of website frustration, everything seems to be back in order. My domain name has been renewed, email is functioning properly, and I can post from Blogger to my site. Tomorrow we’re heading down to Austin for a few days to visit my sister, her husband, and the newest addition to their family. […]

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I’m working through Edwin Friedman’s posthumously published “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix.” Friedman offers four similarities in the thinking and functioning of America’s families and institutions that he observed and believed to be at the heart of the problem of contemporary America’s orientation toward leadership: 1. A regressive […]