“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer– they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which [...]

A few years ago I attended a men’s retreat in Colorado that turned out to be a turning point for me.
I and a couple friends who went together were assigned to a small “breakout” group to discuss our take-aways from the speaker’s message, which happened to be on the story of Samson (Judges 16 in [...]

A few days ago I tweeted about a talk that Lost creator J.J. Abrams gave at the TED 2007 Conference. Now, you might be asking, “Why are you writing about a two year old conference. I mean…seriously?”
First, because it’s one of the best talks I’ve come across on what makes stories work from someone who’s [...]