50 Shades of a Both/And Moment
Is it possible to support the blue and empathize with the black community? Can a white person struggle to understand systemic racism and a black person reject intersectionality? Am I a white supremacist if I voted for Trump, or a...
COVID-19 and Liminal Space
Throughout life we are always asking questions, but once the stay-at-home orders normalized the nature of the disease, the sheer number of questions we started asking exploded exponentially. Will I lose my job? When will sports return? When will we...
Common Grace in Amazing Times
From the Duomo of Milan on Easter Sunday Andrea Bocelli blessed a global, virtual audience singing the eponymous Amazing Grace. Just hours earlier my neighbors and I stood in our cul-de-sac singing the same hymn, a hymn Johnny Cash called...
Thoughtful Reads for Careful Times
Today we have curated several different articles that we pray will help us along the journey of being thoughtful during this cosmic pause we all find ourselves in. Topics like exit strategies for coming out of CoVid-19 to the impact...
Navigating Turbulence: My Wellbeing
This is our third and final installment of the three-part vlog series entitled Navigating Turbulence (Part 1 and Part 2 here). We are considering our own well-being in this week’s vlog. Case Thorp and Donelle Wright, a seasoned leadership coach,...
Navigating Turbulence: Communications
Today, communications (personally and corporately) is the focus of our second installment of The Collaborative’s three-part vlog series entitled Navigating Turbulence. “The constant gaze of a Zoom meeting can be draining in ways an in-person meeting isn’t,” says Jeremy Bailenson...
Navigating Turbulence: Dealing with the Unknown
Today The Collaborative kicks off a three-part vlog series entitled Navigating Turbulence. We are striving to provide practical encouragement as we learn new ways to live amid Covid-19. These are short discussions between Case Thorp and Donelle Wright, a seasoned...
Author Spotlight: The Political Captivity of the Faithful by Nathan Hatch
With Super Tuesday already behind us but many more miles still ahead for this year's primary elections, this week's article, “The Political Captivity of the Faithful,” by Nathan Hatch is worth our consideration. It is a good reminder to remember in whom we...
Why Vocational Guilds: A Synopsis of the Collaborative’s New Initiative
The following is a synopsis of a white paper by Dr. Andrzej Turkanik that lays the foundation for the Collaborative’s new initiative, Vocational Guilds. After a simple question and answer for why vocational guilds, we provide a brief summary of...
A Faith That Works is Good Business
If the Christian virtues were three friends in a highschool comedy, Faith would be the stodgy one. Hope would be exciting, the one that’s easy to sell to the crowds because she has great stage presence. She’d be adorable and...
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