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    The Powerful, Inauspicious Laity

    April 2, 2018

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    Don Owens

    Your mentors, had mentors.  The gentleman I meet with each week was mentored by a man named, Bill Garrison. Garrison left behind many writings, one of which my friend David Bertch preserved, called “A Theology of the Laity”.

    So many in leadership and clergy in Chri...

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    The CEO as Soul Keeper

    November 24, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Chief executives are expected to think strategically, drive change, persuade politically, prepare for the future, and rally the troops.  These are all important in their leadership, but more attention must be spent from the chief nurturing the souls of their community....

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    Insurance: Preaching Resilience

    October 21, 2017

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    Don Owens

    This week thousands from the insurance industry descended upon Chicago for the Annual PCI (Property Casualty Insurers of America) Annual Meeting. Paul Mang, CEO of Analytics at AON provided an excellent keynote, "Innovation in Risk Management: Fact Checking the Excitem...

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    Rescuing Rousseau: Part 3 – No More Students, Only Disciples

    October 4, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau can further be rescued if we look to his expectations of the teacher.  He would have us consider the great weight of teaching:

    “O thou who art to conduct him in his perilous path, and to draw from before his eyes the sacred curtain of Nature, tremb...

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    Rescuing Rousseau: Part 2 – Travel to Learn

    September 30, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau would not have a student sitting in a class room for hours on end.  He would have the student labor and travel.

    I agree.  When our children were growing up they were responsible for completing school work in the mornings.    In the afternoon, they...

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    A Life Built From Work

    September 27, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Focusing on your professional life, can lead to a full life in every aspect.

    There are many songs about refusing to grow up, but even more today that celebrate that refusal, or celebrate a life as a  perpetual adolescent. 

    “I ain't trading my youth for no...

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    Short Term Mission Season is Over - Now What?

    September 27, 2017

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    Don Owens

    It is the end of summer and for the most part, the end of short-term mission trips.  During the summer months when we work in Central America our flights are full of well meaning Americans in matching t-shirts full of zeal and smiles.  

    Short-term mi...

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    Papa Hemingway and the Next Generation

    September 27, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Ernest Hemingway, like all men, is a paradox.  If we combine some of his better tenets we have a hero for boys and men of the next generation.

    I discovered Hemingway in my thirties and was disappointed to have not met him sooner.  If I had, I would have better understoo...

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    Europe Deserves More than American Christianity.

    September 27, 2017

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    Don Owens

    Europe Deserves More than American Christianity. 

    It deserves the love of Christians with the heart to live with them, speak their language, live life together, serve families, share truth in a loving manner, and disciple those who elect Jesus Christ.

    As a family we have...

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    Rescuing Rousseau

    September 27, 2017

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    Don Owens

    I disliked Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) for many years.  Most of what I knew of Rousseau came from textbooks and intellectuals so I decided to take him on directly by reading his “Treatises on Education”, better known as “Emile”.  I think we may be able to rescue...

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    The Powerful, Inauspicious Laity

    April 2, 2018

    The CEO as Soul Keeper

    November 24, 2017

    Insurance: Preaching Resilience

    October 21, 2017

    Rescuing Rousseau: Part 3 – No More Students, Only Disciples

    October 4, 2017

    Rescuing Rousseau: Part 2 – Travel to Learn

    September 30, 2017

    A Life Built From Work

    September 27, 2017