This article is excerpted from Steve’s book Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate, available at Hearts and Minds Bookstore as well as elsewhere. “Hello,” she said, “I am Kikuyu, and I work for Médecins Sans Frontières.” The day before I had flown to Kenya, most of my hours reading The Africans...
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Steve Jobs, famous for Apple, of course, also became rather renowned for a piece of career advice: “Do what you love.” In a famous Stanford University commencement address, Jobs stated, “You’ve got to find what you love–and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill...
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This article is excerpted from Steve’s book Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate, available at Hearts and Minds Bookstore as well as elsewhere. And the doors clanged shut, which is very sobering… The few times I have walked in, I have walked out. A long time ago now, I was asked...
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On April 29, 2026, Jerome Powell stood at a podium for the last time as Chair of the Federal Reserve and did something quietly remarkable. He reminded the room — and through them, the public — of why the institution exists at all. “The Federal Reserve exists for one fundamental purpose,” he said, “to foster...
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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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There is a scene I keep returning to from Mufasa: The Lion King, the 2024 prequel that tells the origin story of the great lion king whose legacy his granddaughter Kiara is still learning to carry. Kiara—daughter of Simba and granddaughter of the great Mufasa—enters a cave on a stormy night, trembling, uncertain whether she...
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