I heard this week that Wal-Mart made a big change to their DEI orientation, and found myself once again at odds with what most people seem to be thinking. These changes are summarized by NPR as “sweeping and include everything from not renewing a five-year commitment for an equity racial Read more…
On our last day in Cameroon, one of Anna’s best friends stopped by for a visit, and I got some video (through the screen):
If trust is necessary for good relationships, how do we trust people who seem trustworthy (for any reason)? One answer may be trusting God to be good even when other people are not
Following up on this post on the how personality affects our view of the purpose of conversation, I thought I should add some thoughts on less obviously collaborative speech acts, such as teaching and preaching. That is, preaching is typically a one to many act, with only one way interaction Read more…
Anna and I have been messing around with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventories (a short, free online survey to find your type can be found here). I’ve been surprised not only to find this a point of bonding between us, but also that the theoretical basis and applications Read more…
We’ve been back in the states over six months now, so this update is long overdue; sorry. A couple months after our return, and we were having trouble thinking through how to communicate, and someone saw us in church and said Wow, you look tired. This turned out to be Read more…
We’re behind on getting news out, but we’re starting a furlough/home assignment year. Part of the news issue is that we’re much in need of rest. So if you haven’t heard from us, please don’t take it personally; most haven’t. So we’re trying to get some rest, but can’t seem Read more…
I saw this building this evening, and we commented on the logic of putting walls on the top storey of a building before the lower ones were done. Then as I thought about it, that’s a bit like what I’m doing with A→Z+T. The work on tone on words in Read more…
This trip was probably the least well planned international trip that I have ever taken.
Our trip to Paris was fairly uneventful, apart from being told we had to take off our beautifully created cloth facemasks, and put on “surgical” masks, which get wet and dirty easily…. Then we saw that our trip to Atlanta was late, currently by three hours. Air France (from whom Read more…