by Joanna Williamson | Leadership Skills, Spiritual Formation
How to deal with manipulation? In a previous blog I reflected on the experience of being manipulated; in this one I want to take a closer look at how to deal with manipulative people. Manipulation is a violation of our dignity, it cuts deep into our value as a person....
by Joanna Williamson | Leadership Skills, Spiritual Formation
You go about your life, and suddenly you realise – someone has entered your space, put a hand in your pocket or purse unnoticed, or you come home and find the door forced open and your possessions gone. How can this be? You have not realised it at all and now you...
by Joanna Williamson | Spiritual Formation
Patience is not indifference, inaction, and nor is it impossible… it is a powerful force within us. It is a stable concrete structure that supports your inner life from collapsing when people mock you for your dreams, don’t appreciate you for your efforts and want to...
by Joanna Williamson | Spiritual Formation
Who does not want an abundant life, a fulfilled life, a life that matters? Lack of a sense of meaning and significance in life scales down from disappointment through discouragement to depression. We fall into these dark states because we buy into a lie – a lie of an...
by Joanna Williamson | Spiritual Formation
Consumerism turns Christ followers into customers, and turns believers in a person to believers in a product. So what is consumerism and how has it found its way to church? Attempts to define consumerism range from religion, addiction, rights of customers, drive to...