There is a stubborn belief out there, and by “out there” I mostly mean in my own head, that the way we change is by changing our thinking. This is a half-truth, maybe not even a 50-50 split, which means if we pick up on the wrong half we can get into trouble. It is…
Today is Thanksgiving Sunday so it seemed a natural thing to reflect on being thankful. I found myself led past the usual people and things for which I’m thankful as I reflected on our Old Testament lesson in comparison to the Philippians reading. We find it easy, or at least I do, to be a…
Confidence is an interesting thing. We need to have confidence in ourselves and in our institutions. Governments, especially minority governments, need to have the confidence of the house. When people lose confidence in banks, bad things happen and “confidence men [sic]” might trick us out of our money. So is confidence good or bad? Well,…