Originally published 30 Sep 2009. Updated 25 Jan 2021. The modern world — and the modern church along with it — is dominated by splinteredness and individuality. Age segregation, gender segregation, grade segregation, marital status segregation…numerous forms of segregation abound, at the expense of the multigenerational worship and life that used to dominate church and culture. Multigenerational […]
Contentment and Urgent/Important
Gathering the Pieces Let’s see if I can say all this in a logical order. A time management mailing list I’m on has recently been talking about Covey’s “four quadrants,” which break tasks down by their urgency and importance (with urgent being those things which are “immediate,” or clamor for attention). This was brought back […]
It’s Not My Thing
We have a friend who would like to homeschool his children. The difficulty is that he will have to do it himself after working all day, because his wife refuses to stay home and take care of their children. Why? She says, “it’s not my thing.” It’s not my “thing,” either. I am not a […]