January 2025

January 28, 2025

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28January

(Recently I explained my decision to regard the current political maelstrom as a distraction that could harm my responsibility to maintain a discerning spirit. Today a further peek into the reasons behind those thoughts.) When I wrote about stepping around the distractions that could impair my God-given abilities to determine how best to live purposefully right now, I was thinking about my GodMORE...

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January 24, 2025

Field Notes: Quantifying elderhood

January 24, 2025

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24January

(I’ve noticed that much of what I have seen and heard beyond this computer screen is encased in numerical certainty, realities surrounded and proven by numerals. Not wanting these later years of my life to go unnoticed, I have resolved to verify my worth with numbers. I anticipate this to be a noble effort….) One perhaps disappointing element about some older adults’ past-professional days areMORE...

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January 16, 2025

AI Updates

January 16, 2025

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16January

(Artificial Intelligence has been inserted into many facets of our daily lives, so it makes sense to stay current with thought leaders in this field. The following paragraphs contain some of my takeaways from a recent reading of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Wharton management professor Ethan Mollick.) Mollick’s basic premise is straightforward: Given the rapid ascendancy ofMORE...

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January 13, 2025

Be truth

January 13, 2025

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13January

(Continuing the general direction of hopeful and tangible ways each of us can continue to be Gospel in these times, this thought: We can embody the best and most hopeful elements of what’s good and godly. Today, exemplifying truth.) You and I could fill our daily conversations with fulminations about the overwhelming presence of falsehood in today’s society. (Short version: It’s everywhereMORE...

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January 10, 2025

Discernment for right now

January 10, 2025

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10January

My viewpoints about today’s events range across a vast emotional landscape. My emotional states seem like small energies, each one hoping it might explode into the prevailing thought that will guide me through the coming days. Discernment seems difficult. Maybe you feel the same…? The outlook that gathers around foreboding isn’t that helpful. Emotions that traipse among PollyannishMORE...

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January 9, 2025

Pastoral care revisited

January 9, 2025

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09January

(If you’ve followed these entries for awhile, you’ll recognize the theme right away: “Take care of your pastor.” Today a little more oomph and currency to those thoughts. Looking ahead at the place of this vocation in our personal and societal well-being.) The coming days/weeks may turn into trying times, individually and for our nation. Whether there will be disagreements, discomforts orMORE...

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January 7, 2025

Here endeth the Interregnum

January 7, 2025

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07January

(Right about now, we’re coming to the end of a between-Presidents period. In a little while, the priorities of the now-former [president] will yield to those of the former former [president]. What we could only imagine will soon fill today’s news. In the meantime, some thoughts….) Emotionally speaking, these several weeks—from November 6th to January 20th—have been relatively quiet. What has beenMORE...

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January 3, 2025

Seasonal Q & A’s

January 3, 2025

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