Reading Reflections

In the last 25 years, 40M Americans have left the church. It’s the greatest religious movement in the history of the United States. In The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael…

When two friends whose organizational minds I trust (shout out to PH and EF!) recommend the same book in the same week, I take notice. Now I find people talking…

A 2015 BYU study showed that loneliness and social isolation actually shorten your life—as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Relationships (or the lack thereof) affect our physical health!…

We’re narrative creatures, and sometimes the best way to make a point is by telling a story. Bryan Loritts calls his book Right Color Wrong Culture a ‘Leadership Fable.’ It’s…

The Canons of Dort were written in 1619 in response to the Remonstrance of 1610. Hey, wake up! Did I lose you? Sometimes we have a “present bias” where we…

“I’m sorry.” “It doesn’t make any difference.” These were the two lines that Jeff Green learned to use at age 7 when his mom left. He felt invisible. He didn’t…

Red Sox fans hate Yankee fans. And Yankee fans hate Red Sox fans. How would that change? Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania…

Just Mercy is heavy. Really heavy. It’s a compelling read—a real page turner—but it’s filled with injustice and brokenness. And that fills my soul with grief. Bryan Stephenson tells the…

Jasmine is married to Phil and they have two boys: Wynn and Langston. They’re members at Redeemer. Wynn, now 4, is named after Wynn Kenyon, who was an Elder at…