Christian Hip Hop

CHRISTIAN HIP HOP That can’t be right. That sounds like either watered-down, preachy rap music, or some kind of culturally compromised Christianity. But the albums of the rapper Lecrae are neither.  What they are is artistically brilliant. The first 20 years of Lecrae Moore’s life weren’t substantially different from...

Let Your Voice Be Heard

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD Bob Ebeling has felt tormented by guilt for 30 years. Ebeling was an engineer for Morton Thiokol, the contractor that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s space shuttles. On the night of January 27, 1986, Ebeling contacted Allan McDonald, Morton Thiokol’s senior leader...

I Have To See The Chips Fly

I HAVE TO SEE THE CHIPS FLY Years ago a workplace research group from California approached some loggers in the Pacific Northwest. They made what seemed like an offer too good to be true. “We’ll double your pay for the next month.  All you have to do is swing...

No One Really Noticed

NO ONE REALLY NOTICED “Most of us stand out in our own minds… Each of us is the center of our own universe.” Those words are from the opening paragraph of a landmark 2000 study that was published under the daunting title The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgment: An...

Ain’t You Tired?

AIN’T YOU TIRED? The 2012 film The Help depicts life in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 – particularly the intersecting worlds of the black women (“the help”) who work as maids, cooks, and child caregivers and the white women whose households they serve. Hilly Holbrook, one of the housewives, is...