From the Chaplain's Desk

COLLEGE PARK, MD –

It is a fact of life – some of us are more privileged in particular regards than others.

It seems we get tripped up on how to grapple with this fact regardless of what side of privilege we fall on.

People who have certain privileges often fall into arrogance and delusions that they are privileged out of their own talent and hard work.

This seems, to me, to be a coping mechanism for not being able to make sense of their privilege and others’ lack thereof. It can also, no doubt, be bald-faced ignorance.

On the flip-side, people who lack certain privileges can often get lost in resentment towards those who have the privileges they do not, and give up whatever agency they do have in their lives to this obsession.

For the purpose of this column, however, I’ll focus specifically on situations where we find ourselves among the privileged.
[Read more…] about Don’t Deny Privilege

COLLEGE PARK, MD –

COLLEGE PARK, MD –

COLLEGE PARK, MD –

At the end of the day, succession is about execution – having a vision for improvement, planning for it, and responsibly pushing to see it come to fruition.

I want to focus on that execution this morning, specifically the point of execution. Execution in a larger context could aptly be described as a process.

During the general process of executing a plan, however, there is a specific point of execution, a climax, the crescendo of an effort that is the demarcation between wanting to improve and actually improving. [Read more…] about The Point of Execution

COLLEGE PARK, MD –