In a story from the book Necessary Change (Cloud, H., 2011) a woman declares that her life might be a living hell but at least she knows the street names.  Rather than move out of her hellish existence she would rather stay where it is comfortable and the pain is familiar. Most humans will default […]

BOOK REVIEW: NECESSARY ENDINGS Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward Author: Dr. Henry Cloud Publisher: Harper Collins Date: 2011     The title of the first chapter carries forth what I believe to be the theme of the book, “Endings: The Good […]

Exploring the concept of transitions in the human life continues to be very interesting. I just finished reading Donald Miller’s new book, “A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life” and found that in this book, Donald Miller is writing a lot about transition. It is a great book […]

Originally posted on April 1, 2008 Foster, R. (1981). Freedom of Simplicity. San Francisco: Harper. Freedom of Simplicity was published in 1981, and, I have read it, now, three times. It is Foster who, twenty some years ago, began me in the transition to simplicity and it is simplicity that continues to be a tension […]

Originally posted on January 27, 2008 The introduction to this book is entitled, “A Book to Provoke the Christian Political Imagination.” In actuality, this book will provoke more than political imagination. Claiborne and Haw take the reader to places the reader may have never wanted to go. The authors really probe into the issue of […]