300 words a day

I often struggle with asking for healing. It’s an occupational hazard, I suppose, of seeing so much death. But I often will say to God, “Let them know how much you love them and that you are here.” I didn’t realized until yesterday that I’ve been using words that Paul used. In a letter to […]

God. It’s been a hard week. I feel like we say that to you a lot, these days. We used to be able to predict what would happen in a week. Then we resigned ourselves to 2020 Bingo cards of disaster and disruption. “Didn’t see that coming,” we say.“I thought it couldn’t get worse, and then it did,” we say. And […]

As a speech major in college, I had to take a theatre course. One of the required texts was Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. The book was published in 1974, about four years before my class. It resonated deeply with the observational, experiential, rooted-in-nature worldview of the professor.  I didn’t read it.  (I […]

Fifteen years ago, I started a post this way: “I jot notes to myself. Sometimes they become part of lessons or sermons or posts. Sometimes they just accumulate.” And then I shared the list that follows. I have no idea of the contexts. It was a long time ago. But some of them are helpful […]

Rich Dixon invites us to think carefully about injustice. +++ I take Dietrich Bonhoeffer seriously. Nobody’s got a perfect take on following Jesus, but Bonhoeffer literally put his life on the line for his beliefs. In my estimation, that makes him worth listening to. So, when he said, “Your YES to Jesus requires your NO to […]