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Five Surprising Lessons from Advent (and What’s Next for Good Faith)
Dear reader, Last month, we tried something new on our Good Faith podcast: a four-part series focused on the season of Advent. While this was a first for Good Faith, the celebration of Advent itself is a centuries-old Christian tradition. So, we wanted to ensure that our Advent series would contribute fresh insights into this […]
Forget Gadgets: Why Questions Are the Ultimate Tech for the Soul
I confess I’m a sucker for a particular kind of online article that proliferates this holiday season: the one that lists “the top tech gifts for the year.” As my friend Andy Crouch has explained on this Good Faith podcast episode, technology whispers the ancient promise of magic: new powers, effortlessly acquired. Suppose that I […]
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed
Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]
10 Things To (Keep) Reminding Yourself This Election Season
I like to be creative. I am most energized when I’m coming up with a fresh insight, a never before articulated metaphor, or building an original product. For many months, while I was developing The After Party course, writing the book with Nancy French, and catalyzing the production of Songs for The After Party, my […]
Belonging Comes Before Belief … and other lessons from the road
I’ve been on the road in recent weeks and I’d like to share with you some notes from my travels. Last week, I joined our (new!) friends at Democracy Notes for a thoughtful conversation over breakfast in Chicago. The attendees are involved in the democracy space in a wide variety of ways and it was […]