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Collaboration and Community: The Mixture Needs to be Shaken Not Stirred
Since the invention of technology, each new tool – device, software, app, platform was created and designed to do two things, make life easier and connect us faster, so we collaborate and share ideas and information. Yet, communication today has gotten more...
An INNER VIEW with Sue Fries
Sue Fries is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, public speaker, and syndicated talk radio host. She’s also a successful business owner, competitive dancer, and still finds time to be a mom. Inspired by her son who suffered from chronic asthma, Sue authored the...
Cultivating A Group that Matters
Cultivating is not just a gardening word. It’s a growing word that requires our effort. Are you cultivating your group, ministry, organization, and, more importantly, the Kingdom of God? If you aren’t committed, it won’t become significant. Several months ago, I...
How to Stop Spinning Wheels and Move Forward Beyond COVID-19
The shutdown due to COVID-19 shouldn’t mean a shutout. The question is, how do we start back up? Writers, for instance, know that facing a blank page is the most difficult obstacle. Where do you begin? What are the most important choices that will get the creative...
The Instavangelist Era and the Light Behind the Screen
I grew up in the era of the televangelist. Rex Humbard and Oral Roberts were the pioneers. Today we live in the era of Instavangelists. They are the preachers and evangelists on Instagram. Our screens have shrunk, but we are still watching, listening, and are drawn to...
An INNER VIEW with Suzan (Sujay) Johnson Cook
Suzan Johnson Cook was the 3rd U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom for President Obama’s administration and the first female African American and faith leader in this role. As principal advisor to both President Obama and Secretaries, Hillary...
Essentials: Moving Forward in these Times of Great Unknowns
First, we are all grateful and are cheering on the many health care workers and government authorities, social agencies, police and fire personnel who stepped up and have been on the front lines since the onset of the pandemic. Bravo! Often though, we have forgotten...
The Creative Explorer
In 1843, John C. Fremont, an explorer (and the namesake for the junior high school I attended), set off to explore the unknown once again. He had just returned from an expedition to Wyoming but was driven to see what was then called Oregon Country. He ended up...
Never in Nomad Land with Jesus
The film, Nomadland, won the 2020 Academy Award for best picture and is based on the non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. The film starred Frances McDormand (also a producer) and is directed by Chloe Zhao. It is...