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A podcast episode from Ann Cavera https://ccavera.podbean.com/e/speeding-past-80-ep-36/

We live in an age of unprecedented mental anguish. Depression, anxiety, and substance abuse have reached epidemic proportions globally. In 2017, 66.6 million Americans - more than half of the…

Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk - not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose - in…

https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-poet-trh-blue?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

by Martin Dotterweich https://vocationmatters.org/2022/08/29/remembering-frederick-buechner-1926-2022/

by David Morris https://lakedrivebooks.com/2022/08/25/in-both-life-and-books-empower-yourself/

by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/08/22/business-case-for-personal-branding/

Please enjoy this wonderful letter to Frederick Buechner from award-winning author Kathleen Long Bostrom https://pres-outlook.org/2022/08/dear-mr-buechner/

During the writing of the novel Godric, the most beloved and acclaimed of Fred’s books, Fred’s own life was in that particularly dark place as his family helped his daughter…

The growing body of literature in this emerging field at the intersection of science and spirit offers an unprecedented view into the uniquely powerful spiritual potential of childhood and adolescence.…

by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/08/08/organic-social-media/

https://englewoodreview.org/kathleen-norris-intro-reading-guide/

Fast forward nine years and a majority of white Christians lined up to support someone more crude and short-sighted than Mr. Tancredo. No matter how many lies their candidate told,…

How underfunding is its own form of censorship https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-book-bans-my-school-doesnt-even-have-a-library/2022/07

Over the last twenty years, most of my work as a pastor and now therapist has been with teenagers and their families. From majority white middle- and upper-middle-class churches and…

from @markwschaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/07/25/creepiness-of-personal-branding/

by David duChemin https://mailchi.mp/e345c60e8d1a/do-you-have-an-audience-or-just-a-mailing-list?e=d157dfd2eb

https://www.thedailybeast.com/vinton-iowa-library-reopens-after-attacks-on-lgbtq-content-staff-members

by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/07/05/emotional-tone-of-your-content/

More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/books/bookstores-diversity-pandemic.html