Lessons from the wilderness
Over the last three months, I’ve written about Israel’s wilderness experience, using a biblical lens to consider how participants in family businesses go through their own severely challenging times...
Faith & Family Business
Leaving the wilderness
September 22, 2025
My last post contemplated the transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua as the Israelites come to the end of their time in the wilderness, but before they reach the promised land. Moses accepted...
Succession in the wilderness
September 14, 2025
In my last reflection, Moses drew God’s ire for the way in which he and Aaron handled a thirsty Israel at the waters of Meribah. But leading the Isrealites has been no easy task. Not only have they...
When the leader snaps
September 7, 2025
My last refelction contemplated the challenge of being generous while living in the wilderness. How do you give, when every fiber in your body tells you to preserve in the midst of isolation or fear...
Generosity...in the wilderness?
August 31, 2025
In my last reflection on the Israelites, God focuses on the responsibilities of the priests and Levites. In the midst of conflict and uncertainty and fear in the wilderness, He tells Aaron’s family...
Your responsibility in the wilderness
August 25, 2025
As the Israelites continue their wilderness experience — a time marked by unrealized hopes, recurring disappointment, and what seems like perpetual conflict — they are perhaps in a place to really...
Instructions in the wilderness
August 18, 2025
After several posts on conflict in the wilderness, I continue to work with the idea that the wilderness experience has important and far-reaching implications for us. The wilderness is a place of...
Wilderness conflict with outsiders
August 11, 2025
My last two posts dealt with conflict in the wilderness experience — the times in our lives when we are in an emotionally difficult, disorienting, even depressing phase of existence, often...
A wilderness conflict of the spirit
August 3, 2025
One of the markers of a wilderness experience is conflict, which, as I mentioned in my last post, can take several forms. Sometimes conflict occurs around your changing role within the family...
A wilderness full of conflict
July 27, 2025
My last reflection contemplated the time before the wilderness phases of our lives, when a physical, spiritual, psychological, family, or business issue prompted a journey through a difficult or...