
Alex
Meet Alex, a friend of Glass Canvas Ministries who has been accompanied by members of our team through his worldview. He spent much of his life pursuing his dreams, to the point of sacrificing his wife, children, and community. His drive to find success in comedy led him to a point of breaking, and...

How To Lead, Whether You’re In Charge or Not
Perhaps you want more influence. Maybe you’re pursuing a promotion that requires leadership. Maybe it's clear: you want to be a...

Self-Actualization is Not the Goal
What is our purpose and meaning? What are we moving towards? In one of his final television interviews Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" explains how Logotherapy's concepts of meaning and self-transcendence contrast the deterministic views of modern...

The Search
What is this journey in between the event we call “birth” and the one we call “death” and what is the meaning of life for Christians? Is the journey taking you somewhere, or are you leading yourself to some kind of destination – a destination that could extend beyond your last breath? What do you...

Identity Crisis: Why Defining Yourself by Your Career Is a Problem
“The party’s going to finish,” says HBS Professor and co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of "Build the Life You Want" Arthur C. Brooks. Here are some steps you can take to mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable.

The Science of Happiness in 15 minutes
We hope you enjoy this fascinating talk from Professor Arthur Brooks on the pursuit of happiness, and why it seems hard to come by in today's culture.

Becoming the man God made me to be
I used to wake up late on a Sunday, and go to the nearest bar around noon. I was grabbing a drink, I was hanging out for the game, I was eating lunch. I was staying longer for the afternoon game. I was running to mass really quick at night, squeezing it in, then getting back home and watching more...

How to find purpose and meaning (when we get a little lost).
I am so miserable and tired of the monotony of life. Join the club. We will all inevitably ask, what is my purpose? What does it all mean? All of us at some point will suffer from the want of meaning or purpose in our lives. Without it, we drift away from ourselves and everyone else, living in a...

Living a life of gratitude
I distinctly remember the day I sat in my junior English class after returning from Christmas break. My teacher asked us what our New Year’s resolutions were for the year. To be honest, I can’t remember mine, but I remember a classmate’s: starting a gratitude journal . That sounded like a good idea...
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