300 words a day

In late March 2020, our hospital system began a new project, a daily internal TV program with a conversation between a host and a number of coworkers. Each episode ended with a prayer from a chaplain. I was part of the process and wrote out the prayers that I then prayed on the “The Daily […]

Continuing the story I started in “In the name“ +++ Sometimes I walk into hospital rooms and I say, “Sometime I’m going to do that. I’m going to say, ‘in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.’ But today isn’t the day.” In our first reading this morning, we hear what […]

More from Rich Dixon: You plan and plan a bike tour, but mostly the interruptions end up being the stories you tell. Nobody expected Una’s loud conversations with Jesus. And we sure didn’t expect what happened during a rest stop in a West Virginia farmyard. First, an impromptu dance party broke out, a reaction to […]

Peter and John were at the temple in the middle of the afternoon. They were there to pray. They were there, looking for ways to help, people to tell their stories to. And their lives intersected with a beggar. We don’t know his name. We don’t know how he was lame, unable to walk. We […]

As you know, every Sunday I share here the prayer that I will be praying in the hospital chapel that day. These prayers reflect the Bible passages that are part of the service for that day. The passages are from the Revised Common Lectionary, a three-year cycle of readings. Often, I use the prayer I […]