The wood pulled on the flesh on his back. Sweat trickled down his forehead and into his eyes. The gathered…
[Reflection on John 4:5-42] I’ve spent a good deal of my life doing things that I had to do. When…
When I was younger, I was obsessed with the NFL. I loved watching, I loved pretending to play, I loved…
I read the Poetry Foundation’s “Poem of the Day.” Today’s was particularly appropriate for me, as someone who regularly leads…
As the doors to the doctor’s clinic burst open, tears poured down my face. I struggled to pull the shroud…
God loves you. This statement is at the foundation of Christianity. God loves you. Period. God loves you so much…
Of all the many sinful patterns of behavior that the American context is so good at highlighting, I think that…
“How do you go forward from that?”, I thought, the very first time my uncle told me. I couldn’t have…
One early August Saturday, while most eleven-year-olds slept, Papa Bob invited me on an adventure. We would hunt treasure, he…
I do it. You do it. And we all know better. Often it’s when I’m making a berry smoothie. I…