After leading the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, Moses was back in his wife’s homeland. While Moses had been working long hours in negotiations with Pharaoh and the Israelites and God,  Zipporah had stayed with her family. Now that Moses was in the area, Jethro, his father-in-law, provided an escort for his daughter and two grandsons […]

When I think ahead, I see that three groups are going to be using some of the same space in the building at approximately the same time. When I think ahead, I let them know. When Kelley thinks ahead, he knows that high school students often don’t take schedules home to their parents. When he […]

I’m really curious about how you read the Bible. (First thing in the morning. Last thing at night. Once every blue moon). I often talk about how I read the Bible, and I’ve made many suggestions about how to read the Bible. (In great swaths, pages at a time. I don’t read, I listen. In […]

(first published February 16, 2012) On Thursdays we don’t need big challenging thoughts. We need quiet reminders. We need to remember what we believed on Sunday, what we promised on Monday, what we lost track of on Tuesday. We need to sit for a moment, just a moment, and shake off the chaos that was […]

(First published June 16, 2010) Though I sit with my feet on my desk, my mind is racing. I am thinking through teaching projects, writing projects and a retreat. The threads of thinking are tangling; each time I tug on one, my mind races to another. “Is this the project to start or is that? […]