(Danny Iny and his team talk about defining your one person, the person you are thinking about as you write. I started thinking about which of the disciples would I write for if I had to pick one. It was actually pretty easy to choose.) John is younger than most of his peers. He works in […]

This one’s from last summer. I thought of it after yesterday. It’s summer. Time for a campfire story. A dozen people, from different families, from little kids to grandparents. The s’mores are done. The fire has settled into a quiet flickering. And someone from across the circle says to you, “Tell us a story.” “Which […]

I talked about four guys tearing a hole in a roof yesterday. I said that it happened in Capernaum. That reference to geography was intentional. Many stories in the Gospels are tied to geography. The locations are like hashtags, I suppose, allowing us to trace patterns, to plot stories on rocks and roads and rivers. […]

Sometime I’ll talk about Capernaum I think. (We talked a little about it in July). It was a town of about 1500 people on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. A “sea” that was about 64 square miles, an area smaller than Fort Wayne, the city where I live.  Capernaum was a hundred […]

Saturday, I wrote this status update on Facebook: working on a bucket list. Finally. Got five quart ice cream. gallon paint. five gallon paint. five gallon driveway sealer. five gallon roof sealer. five quart table scraps. What am I missing? There must be more. I got lots of comments from friends. I’ve never made a […]