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Much has been written about the dangers of social networking, including concern over Facebook as an addiction or a substitute for genuine face-to-face relationships with real people. Like any other tool, it holds the potential to do harm or good (I offer my students the example that a hammer is not good or bad –…

I found this simple 15-question questionnaire linked to a CNN article on Facebook addiction. It was written by Paula Pile, a marriage and family therapist who practices in Greensboro, North Carolina. She states in the article that she’d had three patients in that week with Facebook-related challenges. This seemed serious, so I did what any…

My mother passed away one year ago today at age 65 a short three weeks after the death of my father who was 67. The following is a version of their story that I read at my mother’s funeral. I pray it is a fitting tribute, offered in love, on a sad day… In Memory…

As organizations like Kiva, Acumen Fund and Grameen Bank become increasingly recognized for their efforts to use micro-finance and social business to help the poorest of the poor in developing nations to gain the credit they need to start small businesses and move out of extreme poverty, one might wonder how their efforts might be…

Following up on a post titled, This I Believe: Money isn’t Everything, a faithful reader shared the following hard-hitting and thought-provoking wisdom. Thanks Andrea. Money is a cruel master, disguised as a bigger house, newer car, trendy clothes, impeccable lawn but at what cost? Larger mortgages with the bank owning your house, car payments with…

I submitted an essay several months ago to a National Public Radio Program called This I Believe, an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. Browsing the archives is like a walk into history through the stories of a variety of people from the famous to…

I am happy for Susan Boyle. I really am. A lifelong dream of singing in front of a large audience is realized and she rises to the challenge with a heartfelt delivery of a beautiful, challenging song. She is Cinderella, Rocky Balboa and Bridget Jones rolled into one tear-jerking package.  Inspirational? Sure.  Heartwarming? You bet.…

When I posted a link to a video of 47 year old Susan Boyle here yesterday under the simple heading, Are You Judgmental?, I had no idea that I was caught up in an online phenomenon that was about to catch the imaginations of people throughout the world. Fast forward 24 hours or so and millions are…

Take a look at this and find out… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

I’d never heard of author and philosopher Peter Rollins when I met him at a conference in Memphis, Tennessee several months ago. In fact, we shared a couple of those “turn to your neighbor and discuss…” moments before I learned that he was one of the conference speakers and that he’d written a couple of…
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