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Top Ten Best Practices for Communicating Organizational Identity and Brand

You need some new athletic shoes, what kind are you dying to get? You’re traveling for work, in a hurry, and need to eat? What’s the national fast food chain you’ll be relieved to see in the airport? I love fizzy drinks, but the only soda I ever really want is Coke. I’m in theContinue reading “Top Ten Best Practices for Communicating Organizational Identity and Brand”

Wish me luck!

Applying Goffman to the VW Diesel Crisis of 2015 In preparing the below presentation, Applying Goffman to the VW Diesel Crisis of 2015, I learned that Volkswagen was reluctant to admit their failing at first. Once they did, things got better. What I realized was that if the company would have benefitted from having aContinue reading “Wish me luck!”

Spiritual Transformation at Work?

In the following Powerpoint presentation, you can learn more about the use of the Enneagram as a tool for enhancing spirituality in the workplace. The presentation describes the work of two scholars who, through research into management trends in the late 1990s and early 2000s, discovered the benefits of bring spiritual growth to workplace, callingContinue reading “Spiritual Transformation at Work?”

All Hallow’s Eve – Would Jesus Trick or Treat?

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”― Martin Luther King, Jr. “I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson Some churches today shy away from the practice of Halloween celebrations. And although AllContinue reading “All Hallow’s Eve – Would Jesus Trick or Treat?”

Are You Shining Like the Sun? Part Two

In EfM I learned the art of theological reflection, similar to dream work. In “TR,” one works with images and metaphor to see God acting in the world and in one’s life. Both of these practices dissolve the walls of separation. In discussions with spiritual seekers from around the country, I have encountered resistance toContinue reading “Are You Shining Like the Sun? Part Two”

Are You Shining Like the Sun? Part One

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~from Thomas Merton’s vision at the corner of 4th and Walnut in Louisville, KY When Fr. Louis Merton had his vision in Louisville on March 18, 1958, he realized that the Kingdom of Heaven is here and now.Continue reading “Are You Shining Like the Sun? Part One”

Legos: More Than Tiny Pieces of a Broken Life?

You mean they are not just maddening, sharp pieces of plastic that cause fights and hurt your feet in the night? For years my boys have been into Legos (as I’m sure your children and grandchildren have, too): First it was Ninjago, then Star Wars, then Ninjago again, the Chima (briefly because we felt too much violent behavior coming fromContinue reading “Legos: More Than Tiny Pieces of a Broken Life?”