Last November was the worst month of my life. I was trying to recover from a devastating professional failure, understand how I ended up trying something I turned out to be so ill-suited to do, and figure out what to do next. Can you say Happy Holidays? (As far as tough times go, mine have […]
Archives for 2011
The Lost Secret of Running
November 3, 2011 by 8 Comments
Attack the Resistance!
One night back in the summer, while playing basketball with the boys under our street light, I had an idea for a short story that I thought they would enjoy. Over the next several days I thought about the plot and how to best start and end the story. I started writing it at nights, […]
November 2, 2011 by 2 Comments
Have You Hugged a Zombie Today?
Last fall, because of the Twitter buzz among my friends, I started watching The Walking Dead on AMC. This was a completely new genre for me. I can count on both hands the number of horror films I’ve watched from beginning to end. When I was kid I went to the movies with a friend […]
October 25, 2011 by 16 Comments
Meet The Preacher Geek
Yesterday I launched a new blog called Preacher Geek. Why? Because sometimes preachers talk about the strangest stuff and I wanted to host a dedicated blog for such discussions. It’s going to be a place where I (and others) will write about all kinds of preacher stuff that is far too geeky to inflict on […]
October 21, 2011 by 4 Comments
What Are You Doing In That Tree?
In Luke 19, we read another story about how Jesus goes out of his way to give an outcast a new identity. One day he’s walking through the streets of Jericho and a crowd gathers parade-style, by the side of the road to welcome him. In the crowd is a short tax-collector named Zacchaeus. He […]
October 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
Some Thoughts About eBooks
1. Shorter is better. I don’t like reading long nonfiction books on my Kindle. It’s too easy to lose track of where I am if I go a week or two without reading. It’s more cumbersome to go back and “flip through” the last fifty pages of what I read to refresh my memory. My […]
October 17, 2011 by 6 Comments
You Are Who You Eat With
It takes time for many of us to accept this new identity and even longer to live into it. It may take some radical action from Jesus, or his followers, to open our eyes to the truth of it. One of his first disciples was a tax-collector named Levi (aka as Matthew). Jesus picked him […]
October 13, 2011 by 1 Comment
We Are Little Christs Now, Not Later
Being called a “little Christ” is appealing, yet we struggle to embrace our new identity. We hope to transformed someday, at the resurrection, but it is hard for us to imagine ourselves ever playing the role of Jesus in the world today. Consider the stories in the gospels where Jesus interacts with someone and bestows […]
October 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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