People often talk about Jesus as a good teacher. It’s fun to look at his teaching style to realize that many of his teaching tools don’t seem to make much sense. Here are some of the things that Jesus did during his three years of teaching the disciples. Told them how to do what they […]

Tim said to our group, “Think about God. Think about the various names God uses to describe himself. Pick one of those. Reflect on it.” Tim wasn’t talking about different gods. The sun god, the rain god. He was talking about the odd tendency in the Old Testament to find different roles or elements of […]

(A repost for a tired morning, first published August 17, 2011.) I cannot rub Nancy’s shoulders and read Isaiah at the same time. I’m sure that really spiritual people can do such things, though if they try to rub Nancy’s shoulders, I’ll get pretty ticked. But the balance doesn’t work, the conversation doesn’t work. And […]

This post started in my head as “a letter to half my friends.” It was going to be a “Someone is going to be disappointed tomorrow” kind of post. And the title was based in the reality that I have friends on multiple sides of most of the campaigns: democrat, republican, independent, across the border, […]

It sounds like a New York City school, the kind that showed up in old-time kids books. P.S 119. It reads like an exercise from an old-time school. “Write an 16-line poem for every letter of the alphabet. And make each poem be two-line couplets, compare and contrast, repetition, expansion. And make them all be […]