How the Blood Red Thread of Easter Hope Can Change You
Reading Time: 3 minutes After we buried my dad, my world was as dark as death. Every time we visited the cemetery, I would …
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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer Against Violence: An Honest Conversation with God
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like you I’ve been trying to process the most recent senseless killings in Boulder (and Atlanta). I’ve started several …
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How God Rekindles Your Hope in Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes On December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. …
Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
Why I’m in Therapy. And Maybe You Should Be Too.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Notice everyone Jesus blessed is needy. Being blessed is more than a sassy ironic Southern idiom. For Jesus it meant bowing to receive God’s personal touch of grace. We cannot receive God’s blessing standing tall and proud, unwilling to recognize our need for God’s grace. It is admitting I can’t do this alone but I can do it with you.
Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Me
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have this recurring day dream where I’ve died and gone to heaven. I’m standing in line, in the clouds, …
What C. S. Lewis Might Say About the Trayvon Martin Coverage
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why has the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman ruling grabbed America by the throat and not let go? Because a young black …
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The Wonder in Weakness
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Wrap your arms around yourself or someone you love today,” Pastor Les Avery used to say at the end of …
A Ride from Death to Life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week I peddled my mountain bike up a chert strewn, sandy trail into mountains that resembled barren mounds some …