300 words a day

I talked about four guys tearing a hole in a roof yesterday seven years ago. I said that it happened in Capernaum. That reference to geography was intentional. Many stories in the Gospels are tied to geography. The locations are like hashtags, I suppose, allowing us to trace patterns, to plot stories on rocks and roads and […]

God. We are here. You are here, too. Although that’s backwards. You are here. We are here, too. For longer than I can remember, longer than my parents could remember, longer than any living person can remember, You are here. Before these buildings, before any buildings, before any person began building, You are here. Before […]

Tonight I’ll go to sleep one age. Tomorrow I’ll wake up another. If you want to celebrate with me, I’ll be running the Runners On Parade 5K in downtown Fort Wayne. (It starts at Headwaters Park. They haven’t released the rest of the route yet. (That feels like a metaphor, somehow.)) Tonight, as I fall […]

God. I think that we’re wrong about you, most of us, most of the time. We talk as if you are judging us with plague and pestilence.We talk as if the most important thing to you is gathering in buildings. We talk as if you are most in love with – or least angry at […]

Rich Dixon is reflecting on life. +++ I’ve been thinking about looking back. Maybe that happens when one encounters a “0” year birthday with a big number in front of it. I hope it’s not one more old guy rambling on about the glory days. I have a sense that following Jesus involves keeping an […]