Simon led the group who was looking for Jesus that morning. They found him out in the solitude near Capernaum. They told him that people were looking for him. Jesus responded to the request of Simon and his buddies to come back to town. Back to healing the people they knew, back to the needs […]

If I had more time to write, I would unpack the mental image of Jesus picking his way through the house in the dark before dawn. Avoiding Simon and Andrew, Simon’s wife and mother-in-law, any children that may have been there, any of the disciples sleeping over instead of going to their own homes for […]

I’m around a lot of memory conversations. Those times when people get together to remember someone they care about. Sometimes the storytelling is public, news specials when someone famous dies. Most often, I’m with people after funerals, or before a death, or sitting at a family reunion. Someone new to the family speaks up: “Tell […]

The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, according to Mark anyway, starts in the wilderness. Isaiah, a book of prophecy ancient when Mark was writing, talked about a person in the wilderness, calling out about the arrival of the Lord. Then, Mark says, John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness. Then people […]

“I’m not being very clear,” I said. “I can’t find the words.” I was talking with a friend about finding a different way to look at our work. Not to change anything, but to think through the way I look at it. +++ I like to be clear. I like to offer well-researched, well-reflected, well-crafted […]