Tag: mistakes

  • Mistakes — when there is no “wrong thing”

    Mistakes — when there is no “wrong thing”

    We can be so eager to punish mistakes — ours and the ones others make. But that doesn’t seem to be what Jesus is doing.

  • The siren song of weeds

    The siren song of weeds

    I wrote a post the other day in which I typed “reign” when I should have typed “rein”. It was a simple slip, and one I didn’t notice. It was pointed out on Facebook and for the next day, the only comments on the post were about the spelling. The post was actually a bold post of…

  • The New Coke Effect

    The New Coke Effect

    One of the world’s most famous failures was “New Coke”. It is often trotted out as a reason people don’t like change: a colossal mistake in which the Coca-Cola Company dared to change their signature drink. As the story goes, the change was a failure and the world went back to normal. Except that isn’t…