Melissa Bartell | November 30, 2009
[Click image for Renewal Project website] Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow’s film from the 1st Tuesday Social Action Film Festival is RENEWAL, and it’s all about faith communities acting as stewards of the earth. From the official description Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting [...]
Melissa Bartell | November 24, 2009
Bring new or gently used winter-wear to church. Help a child in Afghanistan! As many of you know, Jase is running a coat drive again this year (see him for details). Those of you who have already stripped your closets of winter coats may still wish to give to those in need, and Kimberlyn has [...]
jace_donaldson | November 19, 2009
by Susan Biali, MD Source: Psychology Today I frequently talk about relationships as one of the most important contributors to your health and happiness. And it’s not just your closest relationships – the number of social contacts you have in your daily life, period (including the bank teller and your neighbor down the street) are [...]
jace_donaldson | November 15, 2009
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. [...]
jace_donaldson | September 21, 2009
I read an article tonight that inspired me & gave me pause. It dealt with the radical notion that children should be bored – from this boredom stems great creativity and innovation. It made me think of my own adult life, and how schedules, email reminders, and errands have taken much of the natural joi de [...]
Melissa Bartell | September 18, 2009
It was the spring of 1997 and I was treating one of my dearest friends and colleague, after hours in my clinic after a long day of seeing very complicated orthopedic medicine and chronic pain patients. Ron was a 57 year old psychologist who was scheduled the following morning to have a thoracotomy performed in [...]
jace_donaldson | September 13, 2009
Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs is “catalytic philanthropy”—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors. Here is a thought-provoking article from The Stanford [...]
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