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Jesus went to synagogue Saturday morning. He started teaching. Everyone started whispering. Mark’s story says that after synagogue, Jesus couldn’t do any miracles in town, other than healing a few sick people. Mark’s story says that Jesus was amazed at the lack of faith. It wasn’t that he had done anything wrong, according to these people. […]

Ten years ago, I published a collection of readings for the season of Lent. I called it Lent for Non-lent People. It had started with a post about 33 things that you could give up for Lent. And it grew from there. The idea was that there may be something valuable in Lent for the […]

God. We have choices. The choices lead places.The places can be good or bad, hard or easy, on the way or at the end.Choices in moments that have consequences in character when strung together. We blame you for where we are, forgetting that we have choices, too. We think you must be teaching us something […]

That’s an attention-grabbing headline, isn’t it? It would be just a headline if I hadn’t recently had a hospital conversation with Jim. (Actually, it was a couple of years ago that I wrote this. But it seemed to to share it again.) Jim’s been in and out of the hospital. He has good support from his […]

In addition to reading books and articles and blog posts about chaplaincy and spiritual formation, I read about publishing books and writing for social media. In that reading, I hear the word “more” often.  More readers. More emails. More sales. More pages. I sometimes try little things to get more readers, more emails, more sales. […]