Breaking Poverty’s Cycles
What can we do in response to a global and local crisis?
In September 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi's limp body on a...
How Do We Live Like Every Day Is Earth Day?
How can we talk about sustainability in a way that motivates us to keep striving for better, while encouraging others to join us on...
What Disney Gets Wrong About Its Princesses and Heroines
How far has Disney come from its early days of promoting traditional and limiting gender roles? This is an especially potent question today at...
After Mass Tragedy: Moving Beyond Our Initial Response
In December 2017, the fires in Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego, California, were still burning when the vast majority of news...
Women & STEM
Although there are talented women in every field, the gender gap in many science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is well documented.
According to...
The Courage to Listen Well
You’re hiking along a shallow stream, green foliage to your left and right, sharp stones pressing through the soles of your boots. You spot...
Charlottesville: How to Heal
The news coming out of Charlottesville, Va., was disturbing on many levels, but one piece of news made my body tense and my head...
Adventuresome Civility: The Brave Work of Finding Common Ground
This season is brimming with questions of who we are to each other — how we should relate to each other in the spaces...
How Much Do Our Words Matter?
Although we have always known it intuitively, science has confirmed the tremendous power our words have on ourselves, communities, and the world. In fact,...
The Logical Approach: Learning to Disagree Agreeably
Imagine a group of friends gathered around a table — eating, talking, and enjoying one another’s company. As these friends discuss life, their conversation...
The Social Media Silo Situation
The year is 2016. The place, Facebook. A 30-something man is scrolling through his newsfeed when he sees the inflammatory headline of a news...
Seeing People Through the Eyes of Christ
This summer, I had the opportunity to travel with several other PLNU students and leaders on a LoveWorks trip to Selma, Ala.—a 17-day museum...
