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Cameron and Daryl. Two great guys in a unique and enviable position–to help high-net-worth individuals and families give to global needs...

C.S. Lewis's secretary & primary memoirist, Walter Hooper, was a close friend of ours for many years. Hooper asked me to write the...

"Utilizing the right words to describe the pain points of your current reality, your 'now,' your life’s or organization’s 'now,' is just as critical a step in moving forward as creating language to describe a preferred future." Words brand.Like it or not, every word, every text, every email, or post emanating from your fingertips is creating your brand—the way the world sees you and thinks about you. Words are dangerous. They can be your best friends or your worst enemies.

My dad was a West Pointer. At family dinner, he often recited a diatribe of U.S. Military Academy aphorisms and other fun sayings to our delight. But I don't want to discuss "Duty, Honor, Country."I want to talk about "How's the cow?"What's that, you wonder? It's the question older students would ask Plebes (first-year cadets) at meals to see how many glasses of milk were still in the pitcher. The answer? "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk. The lacteal fluid extr

Bob Laughlin is a creative genius, a storyteller, and a project-crushing pragmatist. This set of characteristics is almost never present in the same person. Bob has taught me to dream big, to tell great stories & to build amazing things confidently–then to light them well. I wrote this short speech for his retirement celebration, attended by more than 2,000 people.

Prince was a provocative, prolific artist whose music & persona were always captivating to me. I wrote this piece for the Richmond Times Dispatch a few years ago after learning Prince had died unexpectedly.

Christian, hell, John Calvin, predestination, salvation, exclusivism, inclusivism My angst with a big part of the Evangelical Christian belief system peaked when I was 19. As a church-raised child of life-long missionaries to Thailand, this was a problem for me. Namely, if someone doesn't confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, God will banish them to hell, where they will suffer for all eternity. Wrapped up in the question of who gets saved and who gets burned in the end is what

Welcome to my blog! Micah Voraritskul, Blog, Human Hi, friend. I hope you can find fun or helpful musings here for your journey. There are two dynamics in life I have been thinking about lately: Things happen to us. And... We happen to things. How we respond to the first and how we are intentional about the second matters a great deal. At least, this is true for me in my journey. In 2019, I made two New Year's Resolutions. Resolution 1: I was going to cook dinner from sc

Texas, rangers, lone ranger, loneliness, together, friendships I love Texas. The sky (and everything else) in Texas is bigger. My...