300 words a day

Starting next Monday, I’m inviting an old friend to fill in for me for a bit. It’s me. I’m the old friend. Jon from ten years ago spent a year reading and teaching and writing about Nehemiah, both a person and a book from the Bible. The result of that year was a book called […]

Rich Dixon on learning tough truths. +++ Our 500-mile tour was filled with symbolism. We began in Cincinnati at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Museum and ended at the Lincoln Memorial. On our final day together, we visited the headquarters of International Justice Mission. We were prepared to meet lawyers who work worldwide on legal […]

I was rereading The Next Right Thing by Emily P Freeman and found this statement: “We can’t prevent storms from coming, but we can decide not to invent our own.” +++ For Sunday’s homily, one text was 1 John 4:7-21. I said, John is saying, in my own paraphrasing, “How can you say that you […]

That’s the first story I read on Sunday, a story about Philip. Philip was Jewish but not from Jerusalem. He was an outsider, with a Greek inspired name. And he knew God’s love. So when people got kicked out of Jerusalem for loving Jesus he went first to Samaria, the home of the Samaritans. The […]

God. We are asking you for signs all the time. We are asking you for directions, for plans, for meaning, for answers. And you told Philip to go to a road in the desert that led to nowhere. I could be wrong, but I’m guessing that it wasn’t a message written in the sky. I’m […]