From Rich Dixon: We’ve accumulated thousands of cycling pictures over the years. None has been more memorable than this one. It was taken on the final day of the 1500-mile ride on the outskirts of New Orleans. The white car in the distance marks the finish line of our epic journey. You can imagine my […]

Some notes from a chapel message from the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. +++ In a letter we know as 1 Corinthians, Paul seems to be addressing several issues, topics, and questions that he’s heard that they were struggling with. As he addresses each of the questions, he does it by coming back to their […]

“Write the post for tonight, smiling while I do.” That’s the instruction I wrote to myself while writing my project list one day last week. I realized that I needed to remind myself to smile. I’m not sure whether it worked. I’m not sure I wrote any smiley posts last week. The reminder, however, was […]

God. For millennia, people have gathered to sing to you together, to speak to you together. And to talk about your great works, your majestic works, your grace and compassion and truth and justice. We love the idea. We struggle with the reality. Gathering is hard these days. Thinking about your great works when we […]

I am not an indiscriminate hugger. I can’t say whether or not Jesus was. I do know, at least from the first stories that Mark tells us, that Jesus was a toucher.   There are several interactions recorded. John baptizes him, he invites Peter Andrew, James, and John to follow him. He teaches, and then […]