300 words a day

Rich Dixon is inviting us to think. +++ Two days after completing the ride, we met in New Orleans with a group called Handicapped Encounter Christ (HEC) including people with a variety of disabilities and the “able-bodied” folks who supported their ministry. A small group, perhaps twenty-five people, sat on an outdoor patio. They handed […]

I know that science talks about dopamine. It’s a brain chemical. It makes us feel good, sometimes in an addictive kind of way. It’s a driving force in social media design. Every “Like” is intended to help us feel good, to send a burst of dopamine to the brain. Many of us (because I understand from […]

“…Came from Nazareth to the Jordan and was baptized…” This is very simple story-telling. When we are listening to a story, we want the details. We want to know what each person is thinking. We want to know motives. We want each piece of the back and forth of the debate. We want to know the […]

God. It’s the first Sunday in Lent and we are already feeling like giving up. I don’t mean giving up something for Lent. I mean simply giving up. Everything is an argument and everywhere is a death (or more) and everyone is tired. We need you. You are, we read, outside of time. With you, […]

A few years ago, I took some words of Paul and unpacked them. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. As I consider where to start in that process, it may begin […]