We’re cleaning houses these days. Parent houses. Not the simple debris that accumulates from day to day. Archives of emotion tied in ribbon and brown paper bags. Boxes of interests that lasted weeks and now linger for decades. Little piles from one generation that were dumped, unsorted, into bags and now come to another generation. […]

You understand that I don’t understand. You engage in conversation and teach me by your comments and behind the scenes responses. You read about my wrestling with “glory” and you offer illustrations like Maybe it’s that God’s glory is like the excitement of being in a room with every rock star ever, times 10. Just as a […]

I’m taking a course about missions. I’m struggling with some of the reading. It talks about God’s glory and about worship and it’s written to people who are way inside church. It’s perfectly good language. But I work so hard to not write the way these authors write that I have a hard time understanding […]

(This finishes the story started in part one and part two) But the storm got worse. Praying to our gods hadn’t done anything. We prayed to Jonah’s. “We don’t want to die because of his sin, God. That’s not fair. But we don’t want to die for sacrificing him to you either. That’s not fair. […]