300 words a day

This post originally appeared in February 2022. We’re reposting it, since Paul Merrill is on vacation. +++ I have a really old pair of shoes. I keep them by our front door and only wear them to take the trash out. The stitching has worn out in several places. The soles are maybe the third […]

I’m terrible at helping them. I don’t know people who do hiring. I don’t have five quick tips for anything, let alone finding work. Several friends are in their late forties and early fifties. Other friends are younger, others are older. Some have been in “church work” and it hasn’t gone well. Because church work […]

Rich Dixon is looking in the mirror: +++ Your YES to God requires your NO to all injustice. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer is an enigma to me. A man who stood firmly against the Nazi regime, who could have chosen safety in America but elected to return to Germany and speak in Jesus’ name against […]

“Remember those in prison as though in prison with them.” I thought about that sentence for most of my Sunday morning walk. It’s from near the end of the letter to the Hebrews. I thought about it because when we talk about those in prison, we focus on the reason for imprisonment. Whether the sentence […]

Our house has been sinking. We’ve seen worrisome cracks and gaps during the last couple years, but it’s probably been longer. Our soil has a lot of clay, there used to be a stream through the back yards when this was cattle land, and we’ve had some drought during the last few years. We now […]