One of my longest friends is struggling to know what to do. I don’t know how to help. I tell the truth, as directly and gently as I can, but the truth is still hard-edged, barbed with implications. It plunges heart-deep, piercing decades of caringly-constructed love in seconds. There is still bleeding. And I don’t […]

On Thursday, I had the privilege to speak at the Xplode real estate/technology conference in Austin. My friend Matt Fagioli asked me to come and answer that question. So, in between all the wonderful presentations on twitter and facebook and the future of real estate, was this presentation about Jesus and story. I realized afterward […]

Below the plane, I saw ice. I hadn’t paid attention to the flight path. But when I looked down, I saw ice and realized we were over the northwest coast of Indiana. I looked forward and saw the skyline of Chicago, clustered on the edge of the ice. I picked out the John Hancock building. […]

Jesus told stories. Almost everyone who knows anything about Jesus, knows that he told stories. And I’m guessing that there are a number of stories that people know without knowing that Jesus told them. But I don’t think that he was a storyteller. Storytellers have conventions and associations. Storytellers work on their stories, carefully crafting […]

(This was first published April 10, 2009) Matthew could have made it complicated. Matthew could have made it clear. Matthew is telling the story of his own decision to follow Jesus. He could have provided lots of background about what his life had been like, what his business practices were. He could have provided us […]