Stories - Allen Johnson

Authenticity is the Key to Peace, Happiness, and Well-Being

How Tapping Human Motivation Can Create a Healthy Organization

On the Meaning of Compassion

As Consistent as a Sunrise

On the Nature of Depression

Four Roads Lead to Happiness

Understanding “Importance” is the Key to Intimacy

Being “Special” Is Not a Predictor of Success

How to Claim Ownership of Your Life

The One Word You Don’t Know That May Hold the Secret to Your Happiness

Sam Goes to England

The Smashup: The Prequel to the Romantic Thriller: Athena’s Piano by Allen Johnson

The Problem with the Electoral College

Thoughts on January 6, 2021: The Attempted Insurrection

Morality is Key to Understanding Politics

My Wish for the New Year

Nationalism is the Final Idolatry

Reason Trumps Emotion When Reason is Healing

History Sheds Light on the Massacre in Paris

Laws are Unnecessary When Morality is Sufficient

Donald Trump’s Legacy of Lies

A Vision Worth Following with Our Whole Soul

Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Deaths

Would You Tear Off the Wings of a Monarch Butterfly for a Million Dollars?

Ferris Naef: On a Life Well Lived

In Defense of Freethinkers

The Consolation of a Jewish Funeral

I Stand for Goodness and Grace

On Taking the Higher Road

Why it’s so Hard to Change a World View

The Meaning of Integrity

On the Wings of a Dove

Values are Personal, Principles are Universal

The Changing Winds of Religion

On the Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Long Road to Spiritual Maturity

The Promise of Unity and Self Sacrifice Turns the Discontented into True Believers

Is Vanity the Root of All Evil?

Northwest Nazarene University Revisited: Reflections on Community from a Golden Grad

The Homecoming

Manners Are Indispensable in Building Character

A Letter to an Unknown Friend on My Birthday