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. […]

Rich Dixon turns the mic over to Becky Dixon this week: +++ During the 2014 FREEDOM TOUR, Becky shared this reflection about life on the farm. + + + I remember driving around the farm with Dad, heading off to perform some specific chore. We’d finish whatever we set out to do, and when we […]

The other day, I walked out of the hospital as an ambulance, horn blaring, headed toward the Emergency Department entrance. I kept walking.  The page came as I was packing up, thirty-minutes later than planned. My pager was already cleared, and cleaned, and ready for the next user. But my coworker told me what was […]

When we read the words of James, talking about his older half-brother Jesus, he’s inviting us to consider that we aren’t the best neighbors. We like some people better than others. And, James suggests, we do that because we think of what they can do for us. We use people. We gain status from people. […]

God. We come to you and ask that your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. It sounds noble. Then we read words from James that “the royal law found in scripture” is to “love our neighbor as ourselves.” That sounds okay for those of us who have carefully chosen our neighborhoods, who […]