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Happiness Is Not the Goal: Contentment Is

Gisle Sorli has no doubt seen his share of the pursuit of happiness through the accumulations of things or the running blindly after lifelong "dreams" in his role as a Certified Financial Planner and CPA. In the article below he...
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Vocations, Vacations, and Politics in Public

Here is a great challenge for all of us to consider if not specifically, as Stephen Lazarus suggests, at least conceptually.  In the article below Stephen, a member of the Cardus team that publishes Comment Magazine and who is passionate...
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There’s Nothing Ordinary About You

“I’m useless. I don’t have any gifts or talents to offer,” sadly this sentiment is strangely familiar for too many of us. Not everyone says it out loud, but we have all thought it at one time another. We are...
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Common Ground—Possibility or Pipe Dream?

Forty percent of Americans believe that those with opposing political views pose a threat to the nation. In many ways, we are more divided than ever before: from race, to women’s rights, to conservative and liberal policies. But when we...
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The Vital Role of Work in Raising an American Adult

On several occasions we have mentioned and even recommended Ben Sasse's new book The Vanishing American Adult. Hugh Whelchel in his article below gives us another reason this book should be on our summer reading list. There are important ideas...
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An Old Fashioned Ribbing

Jason Gay wrote in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about the Congressional Baseball game going forward in spite of the horrific act of terror the day before in which a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) and three others. The...
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Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is

One of the fruits of our cultural demise is that words lose their meaning or certain segments of the population co-op and skew the meaning. This is an extremely dangerous trait of the society we live in today.  The phrase...
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Why Going to Church Reduces Stress

You might be wondering what does this particular blog have to do with The Collaborative or at the very least thinking this article seems to be a little out of our mainstream.  At first glance you would be correct, however,...
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When Is Water-Cooler Chit Chat Gossip?

While we all have vastly different workplace experiences, I hope and pray you have not seen the devastating effects of gossip that I have witnessed.  The crushing power of gossip has the ability to destroy people and entities.  Like so...
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The 6 Questions Blog: Realtor / Broker John Pinel

The Orlando Business Journal recently named John Pinel, and his business partner, the Orlando Business Journal Realtor/Brokers of the Year for 2017. Hearing from someone who is a man of faith and excelling at the top of his field can...
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Championing At-Home Work…

For all of those who find that managing their home is their primary responsibility, be encouraged. And for those whom it is secondary and even under appreciated, then think again. The interview below is an important one for everyone regardless...
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The Death of Expertise as a Decline of Trust

"When we trust our feelings more than anything else, we stop trusting expert knowledge. And it could kill us." This is the sentiment that Tom Nichols and James K.A. Smith discuss in the Spring 2017 issue of Comment Magazine.  The...

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