By Alan HirschCulture is made up of many diverse symbols, forms, ideas, languages, actions, rituals, and so on. I use the term “APEST culture” here deliberately because I want it to include not only the essential issue of personal vocation and calling, but also all the various social functions associated with each aspect of APEST,…
By Alan HirschIn researching for 5iveQ, my new book on the transformative power of APEST thinking and practice, I have delved deeper into many aspects that are profound and revelatory and am amazed I have not seen them until this point.For instance, one such “revelation” relates Paul’s use of the word katartizō in Ephesians 4:12. This word is ordinarily…
By Jessie CruickshankFor three years I played on an all-women’s flat-track roller derby team. I joined the team at the behest of my husband after the MMA gym closed and I no longer had an appropriate outlet for my energies. Always up for an adventure, joining roller derby held possibility. I knew going in that…