The Man Who 75 People Watched For an Hour
the firefighters, policemen, and 75 beachgoers watched as this woman's son stepped forward into the water and drowned to death. The first step toward a more connected life experience, then, is raising our collective awareness. It's giving ourselves permission to pause and hold onto those fleeting concerns about the pace and disconnectedness of society.
Surround Yourself With Good People…and Their Words.
While the internet can easily go south (think election time Facebook posts), there's also--thankfully--some beautiful human beings writing thoughtful (and sometimes funny) contributions to compassion, civility, friendship, and just general well-being.
While I may not agree with everything they say, the good questions and points raised here are plentiful. Together, we imagine how the world might grow to become a better place.
Friendship as Sacrament
There are people in our lives with whom we may spend a great deal of time--co-workers, neighbors, members of our family, etc.--but too often we do not seem to realize that we actually share life with them;
It’s About the Us, I Tell You
Some people search for individual verses about friendship, but Friendship in the Bible is a theme that touches everything.
I wanted to believe that the ties between God and the unwashed masses was there in ALL of it. That it was in all the Scriptures, tradition, logic, experience--ALL of it. In a roundabout, read-between-the-lines way, I give you this as explanation for why this post today starts in Genesis and not Luke.
Making Friends: What the Research Tells Us
my working idea is to interview a large sample of people about friendship--about how they form friendships and about how their attitudes and practices related to friendship have evolved. The goal is to develop insights that helps us better understand how people move from stranger to acquaintance to friend...and beyond...as well as what kind of benefits result from that journey.