300 words a day

On my list right now are several items. You know the kind of list. And we struggle to know what to do next. For some of us, that struggle is about pleasing people. For others, that struggle is about making God happy (or not making God mad). For still others, the struggle is about being […]

Some of you know that every Sunday when I walk into the hospital to work, I send a photo to Instagram and Facebook. “Happy Sunday” is what I write. For a couple years, every time I went for a run, I posted a photo of a coffee mug on the railing of our deck. It […]

As Rich Dixon is in the middle of the 2024 edition of the Freedom Tour, he’s taking us back to the first one. +++ Now that FREEDOM TOUR 2013 is underway, I’ll offer a few stories to reflect some of the laughs and learnings. At the beginning, I was plagued by a vague sense of […]

I was running Sunday morning before work. I heard Kate Bowler telling a story about walking out of a faculty meeting. “I don’t have time for this,” she said. She was in her cancer treatments. She was acutely aware of the unprojectability of time. And the endless discussions that happen, even at distinguished places like […]

David had a remarkable career. He started in the family farming and ranching business, taking care of sheep with the rest of the shepherds. It was something that was simple for the youngest son to do. Then Samuel singled him out, told him that God had chosen him to be king. Then David got called […]