300 words a day

“Write the post for tonight, smiling while I do.” That’s the instruction I wrote to myself while writing my project list one day last week. I realized that I needed to remind myself to smile. I’m not sure whether it worked. I’m not sure I wrote any smiley posts last week. The reminder, however, was […]

God. For millennia, people have gathered to sing to you together, to speak to you together. And to talk about your great works, your majestic works, your grace and compassion and truth and justice. We love the idea. We struggle with the reality. Gathering is hard these days. Thinking about your great works when we […]

I am not an indiscriminate hugger. I can’t say whether or not Jesus was. I do know, at least from the first stories that Mark tells us, that Jesus was a toucher.   There are several interactions recorded. John baptizes him, he invites Peter Andrew, James, and John to follow him. He teaches, and then […]

In 2011, I wrote a post called 33 things to give up for Lent. A bunch of people read it. Eventually, I wrote a devotional for the season of Lent and called it Lent for Non-Lent People: 33 Things to Give up for Lent and Other Readings. During the last decade, a few thousand people […]

Rich Dixon on keeping track +++ I don’t think Jesus thinks much about numbers. “How do you define success?” We asked that question as we planned, but we were tackling something bigger than we could even imagine. We avoided stating a clear definition of success partly because we couldn’t think big enough. Our vision of […]