I recently saw a YouTube clip titled "The Restaurant That Became the Best by Mastering Hospitality" where the speaker talked about the NYC restaurant Eleven Madison Park and how they learned not to mimic great things other restaurants were doing, but rather to look at what they did
There is a logical fallacy called 'argument from ignorance' that is best defined as "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Variations exist - the black swan fallacy, for example, is when you assert something like "all swans are white" because you've
One conversation about a thing is just a conversation. A second one that week is a curiosity. A third one tells me it's time to write about it. It's hard to say why, but the thing this past week has been the question of why a
On Monday, I had the long-overdue opportunity to spend a day with my friend and colleague, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair. We talked about everything while we drove around town, shopped, and relaxed - and not surprisingly, we fell back into our habit of discussing deep questions of theology, governance, and
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IMPORTANT CAVEAT: this is not about pronouns, or eliminating discriminatory language, or even removing violent or careless or ableist phrases from our discourse. That work around our language matters a great deal, and it is a sign of care for others that we mind our linguistic P’s and Q’