Rich Dixon is talking about making peace: +++ Lots of news these days about making deals to achieve peace. Most of those “deals” are about achieving some sort of power balance in exchange for ceasing violence. While we’re always in favor of less hostility, that’s not true peace. Peace, for followers of Jesus, can’t involve […]

Here’s a reflection on the first of the psalms. Psalm 1 It doesn’t make a lot of sense, now, does it if a person wanting to live a blessed life gets all his advice from people who are against God or walks along a path that leads away from God or sits on the sidelines […]

God. We don’t want fiery ordeals. We don’t want any ordeals, actually. We don’t want to be anxious, we don’t want to be tested, we don’t want to have to be alert, we don’t want you to be gone.Because we like to believe that if you knew what was going on, you would fix it.If […]

I read the other day about monotasking as opposed to multitasking. It’s the idea of doing one thing at a time. But when I think about that, or the idea of making a list of the three things I need to get done in a day, I always think about things that need to get […]