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Thirty-nine job applications. Zero offers. A few bruises, plenty of perspective, and apparently a growing willingness to consider Director of Brisket. This letter is about rejection, resilience, the strange machinery of hiring, and asking for help when you need it. Also inside: faith and mortality through the eyes of Civil War soldiers, and an investigation…
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Under Control
This morning, my family and I watched more than seventy people get baptized. One by one, they shared the story that had brought them there. I expected to hear seventy different stories. I did. And I didn’t. A single father. A retiree. A college student. A veteran. A wife and mother. A business executive. A…
