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Rich Dixon is out somewhere on his bike: +++ Many days of Rich’s Ride were ordinary. Dreams, even God-sized endeavors, are mostly doing the routine stuff to get from one place to the next. You shouldn’t take these days for granted because they’re really what the project’s about. They’re what life’s about. You think it’s […]

The hospital room was dark, but I knocked anyway. I almost didn’t. The person inside had requested a spiritual consult, which means she wanted a chaplain to stop by. We get to these as soon as we can, but with the chaos that can come in our dashes to the emergency room and responses to […]

The patient had requested a “spiritual consult”. We never know exactly what that means. We always go. This time it meant that the patient just wanted to talk a little. About her life, about faith. There was nothing pressing, it seemed. And I thought about wrapping it up in our polite “It was nice to […]

God. “Why did you bring us here to die?” That’s what the people of Israel asked Moses.That’s what we ask you all the time. “We’re here because you brought us here, and now we’re going to die.” Although usually we mean that things aren’t going our way. You gave us this job, and now the […]

Jesus asked for water. And had a comparatively long conversation with the woman about cultural conflicts over religion and worship. The woman asked for healing for her child. And Jesus had a relatively long conversation with her about who could expect what from God. Martha met him on the edge of town. And Jesus had […]