Supper on Monday night, January 13, 2025, is chili and cornbread. When you read this on Tuesday, the meal will be history. As I’m writing this on Monday evening, after a day at the hospital and a walk at the mall, Nancy is mixing the wet and dry ingredients, warming the chili. And I just […]

We don’t have a little snow shovel. But we have a big dustpan, the kind that you use if you are cleaning up a shop. So when I went out to shovel snow the other day, I gave Ben the dustpan. He started scooping snow. He scooped some onto the driveway where I had just […]

God. You know more of the story than I do.More of my story. More of our stories.You know what has happened and what is happening and what will happen. Today we think about wise men meeting you, Jesus, after a long journey.They saw you, they honored you, they went on their journey back home.They didn’t […]

Jesus wasn’t always talking to the disciples. Sometimes when they were traveling, and living, and sitting, the disciples actually talked with each other. Among their topics was, “Who is the greatest among us?” It’s a familiar topic. In families, in work teams, in friend groups. Some personalities are deeply, unapologetically, competitive. Others are deeply apologetically, […]

Go make a tea. Actually, don’t go make a tea. Instead, write about email. What’s the cost to me of having tens of thousands of emails piled in my inbox that I see every time I open my email? +++ I’ve written about Martha and Mary before. About how Jesus engaged Martha’s theological understanding after […]