300 words a day

I understand being anxious. Not in the “looking forward to” sense or the “can hardly wait” sense but in the “aaaiiieee” sense. And I understand that what I’m about to say is easier to say than to do. But that isn’t a reason to not say it. Paul makes a very simple statement in Philippians […]

God. We wish you would say something. In the chaos and storming of social media, we wish that you would say “Stop”. Like you did standing in a boat in a lake in Galilee two millennia ago. And in the sudden calmness, we would say, “God.” And we might weep. We forget that we can do that ourselves. We […]

I was in the emergency department, making some last connections between family and staff after a trauma. The pager buzzed. Fifth floor. Fifth floor could be a death, but probably not. It could be a need for a notary, maybe for someone wanting to talk to a chaplain. I’d been on that floor earlier that […]

Every Sunday morning, I lead the interdenominational hospital chapel service. Hardly anyone attends. We record it. It plays mid-morning and late evening all week long. People often attend. To make things simple, we use the Revised Common Lectionary. It gives a place to start for the service. It allows people from churches that use the […]

Rich Dixon is back in the middle of a field: +++ Last time, a man approached in the middle of nowhere. He’d emerged from a decaying shed. Tarpaper over the windows, patches on a sort-of-a-roof, door flapping in the breeze, the sort of building I wouldn’t have imagined someone lived in. He stopped about twenty […]