What At-Will Employment Really Means I have heard people use the term at-will employment as though those three words give an employer unlimited power over a worker. The usual explanation goes something like this: your employer can fire you at any time, for any reason, and there is nothing you can do about it. That
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When Faith Meets Disappointment I was riding around one Sunday, thinking about life, faith, and the people who have been hurt by religious leaders they once trusted. There is a particular kind of pain that comes when somebody disappoints you after you have placed spiritual confidence in them. You may have trusted their words, respected
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This Was Not Ancient History When I look at photographs of white parents protesting school integration in the 1970s, I have to remind myself that I am not looking at some distant century. These were not people standing outside a schoolhouse in 1865. This was happening during the age of color television, Motown, Muhammad Ali,
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When People Call It Luck I have heard people look at somebody’s life and say, “You’re so lucky,” as though everything good just fell out of the sky. They see the opportunity, but they do not always see the years that came before it. They see the open door without knowing how many closed doors
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The Nightlife I Remember There was a time when going to the club did not feel like preparing for a small financial emergency. Women could often get in free before a certain hour, while men paid a reasonable cover at the door. A woman might spend her first money of the night on a drink
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What We Are Really Fighting About I have lived long enough to understand that most arguments are not really about what started them. Two people can fuss about dirty dishes, laundry on the floor, coming home late, or spending too much time on the phone. But beneath those everyday arguments, there may be deeper problems
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What Alignment Means to Me The older I get, the more I understand that love by itself does not guarantee a healthy relationship. Two people can deeply love each other and still not be a good match for one another. What makes the difference is alignment, because alignment determines whether two lives can actually move
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What a Tree Can Teach Me The older I get, the more I understand why people have always looked to nature for lessons about living. A tree does not begin its life by reaching only toward the sky. Before it can stand tall, it must send roots deep into the earth beneath it. Those roots
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The Life We Live on Autopilot I have come to understand that much of what I do every day begins somewhere deeper than the conscious mind. I may believe I am making a fresh decision, when in truth an old belief could be making that decision for me. Habits do not always appear out of
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The Bible Has Been Used in More Than One Way The Bible has given millions of people comfort, hope, moral guidance, and spiritual strength. But history also shows that powerful institutions have sometimes used it to justify control over others. Those two truths can sit in the same room without canceling each other out. Enslaved
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