The Courage to Speak
On Building Psychological Safety. Not long ago, as I sat with colleagues —coffee mug gently steaming, conversation meandering—I was struck…
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The Many-Lit Lantern
On Fostering Diverse Participation. There is, you may have noticed, a certain charm in the company of like-minded people. They…
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Designing for Dissent
A Reflection On The Lost Art of Honourable Disagreement. There is a curious sort of silence that falls over a…
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On the Virtue of Humility
A reflection on intellectual humility vs the epistemic arrogance dominating public rhetoric. Somewhere between the hallowed cloisters of Magdalen and…
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A Shifting Silence: On the Glacier’s Fall and the Grace of Knowing
It is a strange thing, is it not, to witness the earth move—not in the abstract terms of tectonic theory…
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Hope, the Quiet Defiance
There are days—many now—when the world feels like it is fraying at the seams. The news arrives like winter storms,…
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On Coping with Transitions and Constant Change
There are mornings when the world feels slightly askew, as though the axis has shifted overnight while one was dreaming…
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On remembering those who gave all for the sake of others
This past weekend in the United States, the country paused to memorialize those who gave their lives on the battlefield.…
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A Lifelong Pursuit of the Holy: Finding, Losing, and Keeping
A Reflection on Barbara Brown Taylor’s “Leaving Church” It began, as all great adventures do, with an inexplicable yearning. I…
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On Being Comfortable with Uncertainty
A Reflection on finding peace when the world feels overwhelming It seems to me, as I sit here with a…