success

Practice, it turns out, is not guaranteed to make perfect.

A Life of Never Failing Up. (From the magazine.)

Nick Mohammed, Bruce Cockburn, & more.

The Problem With the Jedi Code

The Good News is, “Jesus Came Explicitly and Precisely to be with Losers.”

Steve Harvey is one of those pop-culture personalities so associated with his later-in-life career that […]

For Longreads, writer Soraya Roberts recently wrote a scintillating takedown of modern notions of success […]

A few years ago I ran my first half-marathon. And won. By accident. The northern […]

This is Part 1 of a multi-part series about college, faith, and the expectations of […]

We’re told that learning how to handle failure is an important part of growing up. Yet we do everything we can to make sure our kids never experience it. What did Samuel Beckett actually mean when he told us to “fail better”? And what does it have to do–if anything–with the theology of the cross? All this and (not) much more!

When it comes to articulating religious insights in secular terms, no one does it better […]

And here we have this morning’s second reflection on Malcolm Gladwell’s must-read “The Gift of […]