Busyness can rob us of so much more than rest. Busyness robs of us of relationships, peace, joy, our health, contentment, and more importantly an intimate relationship with God. Busyness […]

Communications theorists suggest that … words create worlds. This idea is formally known as the Constructionist Principle. It suggests that reality, as we know it, is a subjective vs. objective […]

A recent email from the Center for Courage and Renewal, led by Parker Palmer, asked the question, “What song is in your heart today?” That question made me pause. As […]

I drove down I-40 cussing and crying. Our oldest child was a baby at the time and had contracted some variety of the latest daycare funk. He was headed to […]

Almost from the beginning of Methodism, women have found opportunities to lead and to exhort and eventually to preach. Although he did not initially endorse their preaching, John Wesley believed […]

The Center for Leadership Excellence and the Commission on the Status and Role of Women in the NC Conference have teamed up to send monthly emails of encouragement to women […]