At our credit union, the script for the tellers says, “ask if they have any big plans for the weekend.” I want to say, “I may be with a couple people who are dying.” I don’t say that, of course. It’s needlessly disruptive. But their question is needlessly chipper. On any given weekend, people are […]

From Rich Dixon Last week’s challenge: “If an old, bald, crippled guy can do this ride, what can you do?” A tough-looking mid-twenties man pulled up a chair. “I’m going to get out of this,” he drawled, “but I’m not sure how.” Between his thick Southern accent and street vocabulary I understood perhaps two-thirds of […]

I wrote this three years ago last week. Just today, I talked with a woman whose husband had just died. “I’m not thinking clearly the way I usually do,” she said. “Of course not,” I said. Why should she? In our weariness, we often forget what led to it. And so I decided to share […]

Yesterday, many of us read a story that Jesus told. People who helped marginal people were the heros. He says it was because they had helped him. But they are sure that they have never seen the glorious being that is in front of them at this moment, full of power, full of passion, full […]

God. It’s hard to talk about your kingdom and you being a king. We pray all the time that your kingdom will come on earth as it is in heaven. That your will will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But we don’t trust leaders and we want our independence. And we […]