Spring rains and soft pillows

Spring rains and soft pillows

“How was your trip?” This question, asked casually in passing, is next to impossible for me to answer. I typically go blank, not knowing how or where to start. Is there one word that sums up everything? Is there time to go into detail? Should I commit five hundred...
Who wants to be free?

Who wants to be free?

Freedom is sweetest to those who’ve known some type of confinement. All across northern France, for example, countless towns and villages have streets re-named with the date of their liberation by Allied Forces in WWII (i.e. Rue du 22 novembre, Mulhouse, Alsace). Such...
Capture the Moment

Capture the Moment

All Christians across the US have been given a moment this week. It’s a humbling, and challenging, opportunity to show the entire country what it means to follow Jesus, to show that we subordinate political affiliations to our affiliation to Jesus and his Kingdom....
A story being told

A story being told

Hype gets old fast. Listening to it is nerve-grating, scream-inducing, mind-numbing.  I think Mark Twain said it best: ‘There’s nothing worse than somebody else’s good time.’ And yet, who can always avoid being the source of hype after experiencing something...
 Bringing hopes into reality

 Bringing hopes into reality

The story goes that bank tellers were once trained to detect counterfeit bills by sorting through stacks and stacks of the real thing. After many days, a counterfeit bill would be introduced to one of the piles. As they made their way through, one piece of paper would...