God. Most of us don’t glow. We talk to you, sometimes, with grief and questions,with confidence and confusion,with hopes and fears for ourselves and others. When we say amen and turn to the people near us,we don’t need to put a mask over our face to keep them from being blinded. We seldom look in […]

Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. It’s the start of the season of Lent. Maybe the things that go into Lent–-the practices of giving up food or technology, the practices of prayer more often or solitude or silence, the practices of eating together–those things are acts of clearing space in our hearts so we can listen […]

Once upon a time, I was told that I was a good prayer. I couldn’t figure out how to respond. If prayer is talking with God, then to be evaluated on my conversation skills feels strange. Imagine someone saying, “I was listening when you were talking to Nancy. (She’s my wife). I was so blessed […]

Rich Dixon takes us back a few years to a bike tour. +++ FREEDOM TOUR 2017 considered the notion of divine appointments. We read the story of David and Goliath, and talked about the impact of small decisions. How might this story (and Israel’s story) have been impacted if David refused Jesse’s request to deliver […]

“When the platform is free, you are the product.”  Every time Nancy says something about the irrational or illogical responses that people make to posts on Facebook, I remind her of that truth. When seemingly random videos show up in my Instagram feed, I remind myself.  The other day, though, I watched one of those videos […]