Last week, Denise Lee Yohn issued a plea in Our Work Matters to God (Even if Our Church Doesn’t Say So): “I wish my pastor understood me, believed in me, commissioned me….And from what I hear from the hundreds of Christians I’ve met through my work in the faith & work movement, I am not...
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I am no prophet. In fact, the two most life-altering “prophecies” I ever voiced were spectacularly wrong. The first occurred just six months into my teaching career. After overhearing one too many tense parent-principal interactions, I vowed with dramatic flourish that I would never become a school administrator. Thirty-plus years into that exact role, I...
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“I’ve got National Honor Society on Mondays, Soccer practice Tuesday through Thursday with occasional games on the weekends, and then Friday I am hanging out with friends from school. On Saturday I am working on college applications, and then Sunday I have my SAT class after church!” That is ABSURD, but it is not an...
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