by Guy Sayles | Jul 29, 2016 | Opinion
An enduring symbol of medical practice is the physicians’ caduceus – it’s a winged staff, with two serpents twined around it. Robertson Davies reminded me that the Greek myth of Hermes is this symbol’s origin. Davies explained in his book,...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 7, 2016 | Opinion
One of the most significant “leadership” books I’ve read in the last couple of years is “A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages and Why It’s Everyone’s Business.” Adam Morgan and Mark Braden...
by Guy Sayles | May 11, 2016 | Opinion
To say the obvious: We live in a time of upheaval and confusion. In response, many people want the church to insulate them from ambiguity and shelter them from anxiety; they want it to be a place where hard questions don’t intrude and disagreements don’t...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 27, 2016 | Opinion
I’ve often traveled north on Interstate 26 / U.S. Highway 23 into the broken heart of eastern Kentucky’s coal country over the last few months. The land looks weary. There are gashes in the hillsides, which huge machines have stripped bare not only of coal...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 18, 2016 | Opinion
In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,” Alice walked through the “wood of no-names,” where individuals didn’t remember their own names and had little awareness of qualities that set them apart from...
