Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Some thoughts about each of the podcast interviews
I love how kids make friends. It’s so uncomplicated. No posturing. No pretense. Just a drive to satiate that gnawing desire for intimacy and connection with another human your size. A desire that even exists for shy kids. Especially for shy kids. There is a scene out of an unpublished book I’ve written where I…
I was sick last week. It was that cold thing going around. I can’t remember the last time I took off two sick days in a row because of a cold. Usually I’m that guy who comes to work and infects everyone else (sorry, I’ll try to be better about that). It occurred to me…
12th Century Trinity Fresco on Chapel Ceiling, Urschalling, Upper Bavaria Is. 66:12-13 For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I…
The Bible mentions worship 254 times in the New International version. It mentions worship 347 times. But the word eat appears 623 times. I love food. I love the look of it, and I love the smell of it. I love the feel of food inside my mouth: The sensation as my molars press down…
I have tinnitus – ringing of the ears. I usually am not aware of the high-pitched hum at the upper end of the audible range until all is quiet. Like when I am lie down for the night, or am by myself in the snow-covered woods, far from the noise of our frenetic life. Snow…