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“When the platform is free, you are the product.”  Every time Nancy says something about the irrational or illogical responses that people make to posts on Facebook, I remind her of that truth. When seemingly random videos show up in my Instagram feed, I remind myself.  The other day, though, I watched one of those videos […]

We talked last week about going away from people because of the skin disease. But there were different kinds. Some of them disappeared by themselves. Some of them destroyed the life of the person. So there was a process for deciding which kind this was. The rule was that if evidence of disease disappeared, the […]

God We tell ourselves and each other to be still before you.We tell each other and ourselves to be patient.We hear that those who do evil will not last,but we can’t be still and be patient when there is so much anger and fear,when there are people losing their lives because of our inhumanity. Or […]

Jews and Samaritans fundamentally disagreed about theology and practical ways to live it out. But near one town at the border between the two groups was found a group of 10 men that everyone was against. They were, the text of Luke 17 tells us, “lepers.” It means they had one of a variety of […]

May I be a little vulnerable? I don’t like Bible stories about healing.  I’m a hospital chaplain, after all. And I see people who aren’t restored to physical health. And often, as the “official” spiritual person in the room, I can’t simply speak and have them get well, the way that Jesus could. I’d love […]