It’s Wednesday. I’m grateful Rich Dixon is here: +++ I hope you took a moment last time to listen to Kristen’s beautiful lyrics. + + + We cycle to bring hope and freedom to kids rescued from human trafficking. For our final devotion in 2015, I asked Dick Foth for some thoughts about hope and […]

God- We read the news. It makes us anxious. Anxious for our families, for our communities, for our world. We wonder, sometimes worry, what will happen. Will we be enough? Can we do enough? Will the people who make decisions make the right ones? Will those of us who make decisions, make the best one? […]

I’ve thought, from time to time, about audience. About the remarkable potential of the internet to talk to millions and millions of people. But most of us don’t talk to millions of people. We talk to the people who are around us. In the case of this blog, that’s less than 500 people. I’ve looked […]

God. In the US, there is an election this week. I could simply quote Psalm 146. You are, we read, committed to widows and orphans and foreigners and prisoners and the oppressed and the hungry and those who are bowed down. It is, you say, folly to trust princes who are humans, who cannot save […]

Sunday, I was standing in the hospital chapel, reading the texts for the day. One, from Job 42, resonated oddly. Between the words where Job says, “God, you are right. I don’t understand your ways,” and the words where Job has more kids and stuff, God talks to Job’s friends. We read, in the formality […]