Once upon a time, Jesus turned over tables. Or maybe twice. He walked into the courtyard of the temple, the place where the women and gentiles could go. There were people making change for travelers, people selling doves to those who would rather not bring them from home. And Jesus knocks over the tables. People […]

Bartimaeus awoke at dawn, eyes wide open. From the doorway where he slept, deep in the side streets of Jerusalem, the little patch of pink-tinged clouds in dusty blue sky shocked his brain. He’d never seen dawn. He shut his eyes. He didn’t know where he was. He’d been seeing for less than a day. His ears […]

I was driving to work, listening to Philip Yancey and Lee Warren conversing on Lee’s podcast. Phil’s working on a memoir. So I started thinking about my own memoir. I thought, “What have I accomplished in the last ten years?” And of course, I mean, what have I accomplished that matters. The first thing that I […]

I put my bowling ball in the dumpster. Goodwill doesn’t take bowling balls. It’s monogrammed. It was custom drilled. But the initials aren’t mine. The hand it was customized for wasn’t mine. I’ve had this bowling ball for thirty years or so. I’ve used it twenty times in those years. It was always too heavy. […]

A reflection on James 1:23-25.  I look in the mirror when I comb my hair. That happens once a day. Sometimes that’s the only time I look in the mirror. I look long enough to draw a line along a part that has been in the same place for more than forty years, since I went […]