by morgen | Jul 17, 2024 | Bread For The Journey, Uncategorized
Trust is essential to a healthy culture. That’s not controversial. It’s common wisdom. What is controversial is that you can’t build trust without vulnerability. Vulnerability precedes trust. That’s far from common wisdom. Because vulnerability, when it’s real, is...
by morgen | Apr 3, 2024 | Bread For The Journey, Uncategorized
When I’ve taught this material, in many different contexts, the most common question asked is, “But how do I make friends? Especially at this stage of my life?” We’re lonely. Reading a book or listening to a podcast on what makes for a great friendship can be...
by morgen | Mar 16, 2024 | Bread For The Journey, Uncategorized
“We had no idea what we were doing.” That’s a line from Jonathan Haidt’s recent essay in The Atlantic, End the Phone-Based Childhood Now, excerpted from his important new book The Anxious Generation – How The Great Rewiring Of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic...
by morgen | Mar 16, 2024 | Bread For The Journey, Uncategorized
In a previous post, we defined vulnerability as a profound awareness of our weaknesses, limitations, and failures, and the willingness to abide the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure of letting ourselves be seen. The gospel promises, “It is for freedom that...
by morgen | Feb 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
From a talk given at retreat for pastors, autumn 2023 Do you want to be healed? (John 5:6) I knew I was in trouble when… A couple asked to see me. I had a lot of fears in those days – more than I was aware of – but one was how unreasonably and embarrassingly difficult...
