300 words a day

The other day, one of my grad students reported on a retreat he had taken. Away from interruptions and schedules, he read through the Gospel of Mark. He suggested that we miss the big picture when we are reading a few words, a few sentences at a time. That’s the risk of writing 300 words […]

Rich Dixon is learning about letting go. A little. +++ Have you been frustrated when someone doesn’t accept the rationale of your argument? Of course you have. We’ve all had that experience. We lay out the facts in clear, concise order, and the other person refuses to recognize what we perceive as obvious truth. We […]

I have a confession. I’m not good at begging God for healing. I’m sure that it made me a poor chaplain in the eyes of some people. Like the one time when a patient’s daughter told me to pray. I said I had been. She told me the kind of praying I needed to do. […]

While Jesus was warning the disciples about bad teaching, the disciples were worried about their next meal. Sometime after they sailed away from the Pharisees, someone noticed that in the rush to leave, no one brought any food. There was one loaf of bread on the boat. It became a concern for the disciples. They […]

God. A week ago was Easter Sunday. We celebrated, one way or another. And then we had this week. In this community, in this world, people have been born. People have died. We wondered, a bit, whether the world was going to end. We read about the resurrection and the hope for the future and […]