How Can You Forgive Me? I Killed Your Baby.

How Can You Forgive Me? I Killed Your Baby.

Alicia was born prematurely. Worse yet, she was born near the end of an exhausting NICU (newborn intensive care unit) shift. Two overworked nurses failed to properly connect the life support system in her incubator. As a result, little Alicia died just a few hours...
I Thought 40 Law Students Might Eat Me Alive

I Thought 40 Law Students Might Eat Me Alive

Law students love to flex their growing adversarial skills. Which is why I chose a state law school to test our newest training materials on relational wisdom and peacemaking. If I could survive the cross examination of the forty students sitting before me, I could...
Three Qualities that Improve Every Relationship

Three Qualities that Improve Every Relationship

After mediating hundreds of divorces, lawsuits, forced pastoral exits and church splits, I have learned that these types of conflicts usually involved one or more parties who lacked three critical character qualities: humility, teachability and flexibility. To put it...