Reading More Carefully
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I find that there’s way too much to read—on the internet, on my desk, on my coffeetable, in my mailbox, and everywhere else. So I read, with interest, this post...
View ArticleAndy Crouch on Flourishing at Work
Be sure to check out the video over at The High Calling about avoiding complacency—a short discussion with Andy Crouch: So we need to ask what could we add here, what could we change here that would...
View ArticleArt and People
Two people I like and respect a whole lot are Meaghan Ritchey (we worked together for a while at International Arts Movement) and Dan Siedell (author of God in the Gallery, a book that has shaped my...
View ArticleNew C.S. Lewis Essay
The fiftieth anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death was last week, and Cambridge University Press published a new collection of his reviews and criticism to commemorate the occasion, including a new essay...
View ArticleThe Imagination Wars
Businesspeople, creatives, theologians, and others have long said that our imaginations are vitally important to showing us why, and how, we do the things we do. But what vision animates your...
View ArticleAuden, Anxiety, and the Music on the Way
Anxiety is a powerful problem for many people – I was recently amazed to find out that nearly half of one of my college classes freely admitted to having been on anxiety medication at some point in...
View ArticleCreativity and Minecraft
Here’s an interesting piece: the case for creating — and video games: Things progressed. Servers popped up where players could work together in a world. Some players replicated real-world buildings and...
View ArticleThe Creative Pair
We often think of creative geniuses – but what about creative genius pairs? The latest issue of The Atlantic looks at some, including John Lennon and Paul McCartney: For centuries, the myth of the lone...
View ArticleCreativity Creep
At The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman has some interesting stuff to say about “creativity creep”: Every culture elects some central virtues, and creativity is one of ours. In fact, right now, we’re living...
View ArticleAnd Speaking of Friendship . . .
Particularly situations in which friends can be made, as David Brooks wrote about in yesterday’s post: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, does something very interesting along these lines – though a...
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