The Lab
The Lab is where I think out loud. These are my raw notes, half-formed ideas, scripture observations, clinical patterns I’m noticing, things I’m working through, and who knows what else.
I also like to make things, so The Lab is my way of holding myself accountable.
This is where it happens before it gets polished and market-y. Newest posts at the top.
Why Retraining Your Attention Is the New Survival Skill
/in The Lab/by loriOnce upon an Internet time, ads were relegated to banners and sidebars. If you don’t think ads are coming to AI, you’re kidding yourself. The future will require us to retrain our focus and attention like Olympic athletes. Read my latest series The Dopamine Era to learn where we are with our attention, and how […]
Christianity Isn’t About the Culture War — It’s About Following Christ
/in The Lab/by loriBeing a Christian isn’t about debating issues in the public square. Somewhere in the last 50 years it became about issues instead of a Person. It’s about following Christ and being in such a close relationship with Him that you’re doing everything you can to be just like Him. Others from all corners of that […]
The real fire to know God
/in The Lab/by lori‘This book is a modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him. Nothing here is new except in the sense that it is a discovery which my own heart has made of spiritual realities most delightful and wonderful to me. Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than […]
The Restlessness of Chasing Midlife Dreams: Ambition in Your 50s
/in The Lab/by loriYour mid 50s brings you firmly into a place of expected wisdom and experience. My oldest grandson scraped his knee when he fell off his bike this morning. His mom cleaned it and put a Band-Aid on it. He told her she doesn’t know how to put a Band-Aid on because she’s not a grandma. […]
The search for significance
/in The Lab/by loriWe’re so uniquely pressured to have impact outside of our immediate surroundings. It wasn’t too terribly long ago that people never ventured outside of their village in their whole entire life. The utility of having global impact was not a twinkle in anyone’s eye. Now, not only can we physically travel anywhere we want. But […]