This summer I published a new book called “Risk: Living by Faith in the Face of Fear.” I thought I would give you a taste of it with one of the chapters from the middle of the book—the one, in fact that inspired the cover art for the book. The […]
We live in a noisy world. It is a world that would attempt to distract us with the baubles of material goods and acquisitions, and fill our minds and lives with busy activity. We live our lives with ear buds pouring sound in our ears, phones and computers dinging with […]
Miss Strangelove had grown up in church, and was in fact a pastor’s daughter. She learned her children’s catechism. She prayed before meals. Her parents disciplined her when she was naughty, so she would know the meaning of good and evil. One day at Sunday School, Miss Strangelove’s teacher […]
Nothing, they say, is certain except for death and taxes. I would like to add something else that is certain – and that is grace. Which sometimes manifests itself in taxis. It was cold and dark, and I was tired. Carlton and I were headed, with our friends Jay and […]
What could be more concrete, more basic, more material than our need for food? It is what fuels our energy, builds our bones, nourishes our muscles. It has texture in the mouth – crunchy, grainy, chewy, velvety. It astonishes our senses with its wide variety of tastes and smells (some […]
Sometimes one’s teaching has more of an impact than anticipated, and the results may be a little dismaying. Let me tell you what happened this past couple of weeks. A couple of weeks ago, to mark the beginning of Lent, I gave a talk on fasting to our community at […]
Happy Lent, everybody! (Does one say that?) To celebrate the start of the Lent season, I am posting a video I made a couple of years ago. This is a painting by one of my favorite painters–Pieter Brueghel–that hangs in the Brussels Musée des Beaux-Arts, contrasting the two seasons of […]
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