If legal conflict is holy ground, then the next question for the Christian lawyer is unavoidable: How then should we practice? In Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground, I argued that the rooms in which lawyers do their work – courtroom, mediation table, deposition, boardroom, late‑night conference call – are not vacant of God’s presence simply … Read more
Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground – Prayer, Peacemaking (Not Peacekeeping), and the Christian Lawyer By Michael C. Kelley Every lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos. A deal has fractured. A partnership is collapsing. A board is divided. A family business is bleeding mistrust. A contractor, owner, architect, regulator, lender, or public agency … Read more
A From the Seminarians Series by Draa Mackey Loneliness. The odds are that you’ve experienced it firsthand. If you have, you’ll quickly recall how smothering it can be. Laura and Robert Illig in Business Insider write, “Even before COVID spread to all corners of the world and caused isolation, loneliness has been running rampant.” They … Read more
There is so much packed into this week’s episode of our podcast, Nuance. It is hard to identify one main thing because there are so many juicy points. However, one of the big takeaways is perspective, which is good because we are constantly losing it. Our guest today is Dr. Matthew Kaemingk, a Christian ethicist … Read more
So often when the subject of hospitality comes up, people’s minds immediately gotowards the hosting of parties or dinners. The truth is coordinating gathering is a thinslice of all that hospitality encompasses. Our inability to properly define hospitalitytruncates our understanding of the Gospel and how we are to live it out in our dailylives. This … Read more
There are times when lists are more impactful than even the most eloquent narrative. This is probably why lists as blog content are popular…you know, things like Top 5 Ways to Be More Efficient, 10 Ways to Improve Your Overall Health, Top 10 Universities of the Year, etc. I am not sure what the best title for this week’s blog post is, but “Astonishing Numbers” may be the most descriptive and it too falls into that category of lists.
About a year ago, we bought a home. It has a long driveway, stretching from the road to a garage on the back of the property. That’s a lot of concrete to clear when it snows here in Iowa. I had not prepared for the first snowfall, which brought several inches of thick, heavy snow. It took our family of seven several hours (and shovels) to clear the snow. But this morning, when we woke up to five inches of snow, I did not fear (throwing out my back again). I could laugh at the snowfall. Because I had purchased a snowblower fit for our drive.
Hit after hit after hit…they just seem to keep coming: Russia, inflation, covid, incivility and not to mention all the personal heart ache that we all experience. I must admit it is rather overwhelming right now.
On December 31, 2017, I started a new New Years tradition. I grab my journal, my Bible, a few pens or markers, and make myself cozy under a warm blanket. I skim my journal entries, think about the books of the Bible I read that year, recall the struggles and heartaches, and try to list the lessons learned.
Then, I wonder what themes from the past year God invites me to carry into the next. I choose a word to represent each theme, and I write the words on a sticky note.
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