The Anatomy of Celebration: Love, Lavishness, and Liturgy
My wife and I were at a wedding for a dear friend not long ago. It was a destination wedding in an unbelievable location, the kind that would begin a Netflix film about a family taking the trip of a...
The Weapons of Peace: How the Christian Lawyer Practices on Holy Ground
If legal conflict is holy ground, then the next question for the Christian lawyer is unavoidable: How then should we practice? In Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground, I argued that the rooms in which lawyers do their work – courtroom,...
Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground –Prayer, Peacemaking (Not Peacekeeping), and the Christian Lawyer
Where Chaos Meets Holy Ground – Prayer, Peacemaking (Not Peacekeeping), and the Christian Lawyer By Michael C. KelleyEvery lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos.A deal has fractured. A partnership is collapsing. A board is divided. A family...
What Do Protestants Need in the Next Pope?
What Do Protestants Need in the Next Pope? By Case Thorp (A version of this article originally appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on May 22, 2025) As a boy, I once told my mother that I wanted to grow up...
An Historian’s History
Saint Augustine, Peter Brown, and I gathered at a cozy coffee shop on Princeton’s Nassau Street most evenings in the spring of 1999. While I had a coffee in hand and comfortably nestled in a leather chair, St. Augustine shared...
How to Navigate 2025
Will this be the year wars in Gaza and Ukraine find resolution? Will inflation stabilize, and will AI and cryptocurrency move from buzzwords to tangible influences in the daily lives of everyday people? Most importantly, will 2025 be the year...
Disney’s Onward: A Parable of Hope in our Secular Age
I’ve always loved stories that explore magical worlds, so when I saw Disney’s 2020 animated film Onward, something stirred in me. There was something about Onward that seemed both to transport me to another world and tell me more about...
From Loneliness to Love
A From the Seminarians Series by Draa Mackey Loneliness. The odds are that you’ve experienced it firsthand. If you have, you’ll quickly recall how smothering it can be. Laura and Robert Illig in Business Insider write, “Even before COVID spread...
Why You Should Reduce Screen Time & Some Tips To Do So
As has been The Collaborative's practice we will once again be taking a screen sabbatical for the month of July. Considering this our blog post today was selected to help encourage you to look for ways to cut back on...
When Helping Hurts
When Helping Hurts When the network system for Southwest Airlines failed last year, sending scores of holiday travelers into endless frustration and fatigue, a business analyst described the catastrophe as happening "gradually, and then all at once." In other words,...
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