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Last week, we went to a Terrible Orchestra concert. That’s their name. The Fort Wayne Terrible Orchestra. In Fort Wayne, there is a Philharmonic Orchestra, there is a community band and a community orchestra and an American Legion band and a couple other groups. And then there is the terrible orchestra. The conductor is a […]

Rich Dixon is building reliable connection. +++ Trust is becoming more and more difficult. Spam email that’s indistinguishable from the real thing. AI bot calls with too much specific information. We might respond with fear. Don’t trust anyone. They’re all scammers and thieves. There might be a better idea. Be more human. Create communities, whether […]

Jesus went up into the hills near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. He spent the night talking with God, as he often did. And after that conversation, he called together the core of the people who had been following him. Maybe 100 people scattered out in little groups, maybe with campfires, sleeping under […]

Saturday was All Saints Day in the Church calendar. The point of All Saints Day is to remember those who have died and to do so in the context of their faith and God’s faithfulness. Hebrews 11 is, for me, a great model of how to remember those who are gone. They lived in anticipation […]

God. We feel disconnected. Isolated. Lonely. Even when we are with people all day long, helping, serving, working, we feel disconnected. Even with invisible community connections of chat, we feel lonely. And when we are away from home, away from routine, away from what we know best and do best, we feel isolated. We feel […]