04
Oct
Creativity and Chaos
Each morning I confront a blank page. I am finding this confrontation to be both frightening and invigorating. Each day, a kind of birth. After doing this now for a couple […]
03
Oct
Heaven and Hell
Alice died last week at the age of 99. She lived in the nursing home, and over the years I had watched her get frailer and frailer. She was really […]
02
Oct
Evaluating Church
Some follow up thoughts from yesterday’s sermon. In evaluating the spiritual health and vitality of a church, here is something to consider: Is it a place where honesty in personal truth-telling […]
01
Oct
Sunday morning prayer
Sunday morning. It is raining outside; still dark. I am still waking up, coffee in hand to assist. I know what I want to talk about this morning; just not […]
30
Sep
Wondering who’s out there
I missed blogging yesterday because I was away on a quick trip with my family to surprise my father in North Carolina on his 85th birthday. It was a visit […]
28
Sep
Jesus Camp
A peculiar convergence of thoughts and events: First the thoughts. This past Sunday my sermon included my thoughts about the Christian life and children, inspired partly by the Gospel lesson […]
27
Sep
Nearly Drowning
Having been blogging now for over a week, the challenge of finding things to write about begins to emerge. Last week I wrote about some of the rhythms of an […]
26
Sep
Measuring the Soul
I think the best measurement available to us of the dimensions of the human soul is found in our capacity to hold other persons inside our heart. By holding other […]
25
Sep
Remembering Sunday
At the end of a Sunday, there is always a sense of my mind being fried. So much taken in, so much put out. Sunday mornings are adrenalin rushes. A […]
24
Sep
Animation, by John Bidwell
Animation Flash! The coalescence of the gas When time was born so things could come to pass, A blinding light as all that was would grow Until the forms it […]
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