God. How are you? We show up to these conversations, and we talk and complain. We tell you what we want, what’s wrong with what others or you or we are doing. And we almost never ask you how you are doing. Or if there is anything we can get you while we are up. […]

A sense of preparation is what Lent accomplishes. It keeps us from being surprised. And we do that preparation by 1. Choosing a direction. And/or 2. Making a change. Jesus went into the wilderness to pray. God took him there. Forty days to choose away from food, and toward God. We are, as humans, accustomed […]

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. What does six weeks feel like? It depends. Six weeks of what? Around the hospital, we sometimes hear measurements of six weeks. Six […]

Rich Dixon is inviting us to think. +++ Two days after completing the ride, we met in New Orleans with a group called Handicapped Encounter Christ (HEC) including people with a variety of disabilities and the “able-bodied” folks who supported their ministry. A small group, perhaps twenty-five people, sat on an outdoor patio. They handed […]

I know that science talks about dopamine. It’s a brain chemical. It makes us feel good, sometimes in an addictive kind of way. It’s a driving force in social media design. Every “Like” is intended to help us feel good, to send a burst of dopamine to the brain. Many of us (because I understand from […]