April 2014 – Page 3 – 300 words a day

Finding Easter (stories)

(First published April 9, 2009) I struggle with remembering where things are in the Bible. I struggle with remembering details of stories. I remember ideas and images in sweeping references. I’m not alone. Some days, it’s helpful to review, to go back to the familiar images and read the actual story again. This is a […]

by Jon Swanson

Holy Week PSA.

(First published April 14, 2011) This is a public service reminder. We are in what is known as Holy Week. During this week, in churches everywhere, there will be an unusual number of public services. There were be public services on Palm Sunday. There will be public services on Maundy Thursday. There will be public […]

by Jon Swanson

Supper guests.

It’s hard to be original around Easter. Everything has been said and is being said and will be said, in thousands of sermons and blogposts, books and status updates. I’ve even said some of it myself, in a Lent book, in five years of posting here. But maybe novelty isn’t the point of Easter. Maybe […]

by Jon Swanson

Learning how to love.

What do I do with what I am learning? That’s a significant question. We consume immense amounts of information. We read. We hear. We converse. But then we have to live. Some of us are very comfortable keeping the input and the output separate. Some of us avoid the hard work of taking the interesting […]

by Jon Swanson

On not reviewing movies.

I won’t be writing a review of “Noah”. Or of “Son of God” or “God’s Not Dead.” Just like I won’t be writing a review of “300: Rise of an Empire.” Although I am thinking about what it would be like to see myself on the big screen: “He started with 300 words a day […]