God. I try to be honest, God, when I talk to you. I’ll be honest. I want to try to be honest. Today, I need to honestly say, we do not understand what is really going on. In just about anything. Nations, families, our own hearts, we know there is chaos and uncertainty and question. […]

If you’ve sat with a family in an emergency room, you’ve faced hard questions. And you’ve struggled to figure out the way to navigate hope and despair. It doesn’t matter if you are a chaplain or a pastor or a friend that showed up in a hard time. You get questions and you have to […]

Rich Dixon is out somewhere on his bike: +++ Many days of Rich’s Ride were ordinary. Dreams, even God-sized endeavors, are mostly doing the routine stuff to get from one place to the next. You shouldn’t take these days for granted because they’re really what the project’s about. They’re what life’s about. You think it’s […]

The hospital room was dark, but I knocked anyway. I almost didn’t. The person inside had requested a spiritual consult, which means she wanted a chaplain to stop by. We get to these as soon as we can, but with the chaos that can come in our dashes to the emergency room and responses to […]

The patient had requested a “spiritual consult”. We never know exactly what that means. We always go. This time it meant that the patient just wanted to talk a little. About her life, about faith. There was nothing pressing, it seemed. And I thought about wrapping it up in our polite “It was nice to […]