Every two years, roughly 7,000 counselors, pastors, coaches, and other leaders come together for the World Conference of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) in Nashville. They spend the week absorbing plenary talks and worship times, learning from hundreds of continuing education workshops and speakers, exploring more than 100 exhibitors’ booths, and making connections…
Have you ever had to turn someone away? Maybe you’re an event planner with a wait list to a sold-out event. It could be that you’re a service manager, and you have to tell a customer it will be a week or more before a technician can fix their broken HVAC unit or their dryer…
I think we can probably all agree that we are living in a weird moment. Ten years ago, who would have thought that the concept of gender would become so convoluted and divisive? Sure, some people would get defensive at the idea of gender differences, but it wasn’t quite a “third rail” in the way…
It seems like everywhere I turn lately—while being interviewed on a podcast, speaking at a church, or even talking to the person next to me on an airplane—people keep asking the same question: “Since you’ve done so much gender research, how do you respond to this hot-button topic these days?” They often follow up with:…
Standing at the altar in a tux or a flowing white gown, it’s easy to imagine keeping God at the center of your marriage. Always. Forever. Until death do you part. What we can’t imagine is it’s not usually death that “parts” us, at least not in the daily sense of the word. It’s hectic…
Sometimes it’s good to simply stop and laugh out loud. Or even to tear up with a good cry. I can go either direction. There really are terrifically funny humans on this planet. And when caring people go that extra mile to make someone else’s day better, I can get a little misty eyed even…
