Monthly Archives: June 2007
Forty Hours
Part of my response to Henry Cloud’s book Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality has been to look my work habits square in the eye. I am now keeping a log of what I actually do with … Continue reading
Filed under Daily Life, Faith and Art
Integrity, The Wake
Here’s a results-oriented book for you: Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality, by Dr. Henry Cloud. Henry Cloud is a name I’ve heard a couple of times before from friends at Willow, but I’ve never read one … Continue reading
Filed under Books
Willow Creek, Dawkins, and Cloud
Last Tuesday morning, I flew back to Chicago to teach and perform at the Willow Creek Arts Conference. After a dip in last year’s attendance, this year’s conference attracted around 5000 from around the country, all of them involved in … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Daily Life
Evangelical Atheists
Atheism is on the offensive. The slew of new books out (none of which I’ve read yet) by people like Christopher Hutchins (God is Not Great — #11 at Amazon), Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the … Continue reading
Filed under Spirituality
Kids Performing
I spent the weekend watching my children perform. First it was Daniel in the opening show of the second weekend of Roosevelt High School’s Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was a first class show by some sixty wonderful performers, and of … Continue reading
Filed under Daily Life