Hi. You may be struggling to concentrate today. I am. I want to offer you some reasons to not get upset about it. In short, there are perfectly understandable reasons to feel disrupted. Other people can give you the 10 steps to get back on track, or 10 ways to take the next step.  I […]

God. I realized as I looked for the readings for today that I can do no better, be no more honest in prayer, than the writer of Psalm 17. They may have come from conversation with you and David, but these words have been repeated to you over and over for millennia, and they are always […]

You may not read my other newsletter on Finding Words in Hard Times. The other week I wrote this: I’ve made a change in the way I end some of the emails I send. I used to end with just my name. Slowly, I started to write “peace”. Because I thought we needed it. (A couple of my […]

I hear people say, “God’s got a plan” and sometimes I say, “That’s great. But I don’t know what it is. And in the meantime, this waiting is scary.” And then they say, “But you know what the Bible says.” And then they quote some version of Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have […]

Rich Dixon helps us see the edges of the crowd. +++ For the past few months, I’ve been doing two online classes – guided by Tim Mackie from the Bible Project – covering the first seven chapters of Matthew’s gospel. On one level, we encountered familiar stories and verses even non-Christians know something about. In another […]