This list started last week in “The recipe that isn’t.” 1. Jesus often helps you with the conversation. 2. Jesus loves you more than you hate yourself. 3. Jesus challenges just about every attempt to routinize religion. Or, better, to routinize a relationship with him into religion. 4. Jesus does make demands. But not the […]

I was talking with a friend about following Jesus. My friend, like many of us, like me, would find a formula helpful. It would be great to have 3 steps or 5 levels or 12 magic words. But recipes don’t seem to work with Jesus. My friend reminded me of the opening chapter of Searching […]

I’m looking out the window of my office as I write. Across the street is a guy with a hedge trimmer. He’s brutally chopping off the top of the bushes cowering the the corners of the fence. He just picked up loppers and is on his knees, hacking away at the base of a tree. […]

Richard asked me about my 99 goals for 2011. I told him that my friend Marc has talked about an annual goal-setting exercise, one that starts by making a list of 100 goals for the year. I struggle with goals. I’m a second chair person. I help other people get their goals done. I used […]