Yesterday, I talked about the conversation Jesus and his disciples were having about his public identity. He asked them what people were saying about him. And then Jesus begins to describe what will happen to him. Suffer and be rejected by the establishment and be killed and rise again. And Peter starts to rebuke him. […]

My dad used to travel a lot. When I got old enough, I’d drive him to the airport. And then I’d pick him up at the airport. Those trips gave us time to talk, 45 minutes of catching up on the trip, of last instructions before he left town, of just talking. Because my dad […]

God. You are reading Facebook. Or maybe James and Solomon were as they wrote about the destructive power of spoken words. “How long will mockers delight in mockery?” Wisdom says. “How long will fools hate knowledge?” “Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark,” James says. “The tongue is also […]

In addition to reading books and articles and blog posts about chaplaincy and spiritual formation, I read about publishing books and writing for social media. In that reading, I hear the word “more” often.  More readers. More emails. More sales. More pages. I sometimes try little things to get more readers, more emails, more sales. […]

In Tuesday’s post, I talked about walking out of the hospital while a cardiac arrest came in. At the end of my shift on Tuesday, I sent Nancy a text. “So today I’m staying for the cardiac arrest.” The hospital was complicated for chaplains at that moment. Staff and families and uncertainty called for support. […]