Believing in the Goodness of God – Oct. 5, 2022
“To act as though one believes in the goodness of God is to relinquish one’s need for the security of rightness. It is to trust the power of God’s transforming love for ourselves and others, even through our mistaken attempts at love. It is to seek the good from the deepest place of love and […]
The Path – Aug. 17, 2022
“Jesus’ path was exactly that, a radically unmanageable simplicity—nothing held back, nothing held onto. It was almost too much for his followers to bear. Even within the gospels themselves, we see a tendency to rope him back in again, to turn his teachings into a manageable complexity. Take his radically simple saying: “Those who would […]
Friendship – July 19, 2022
“Atheists sometimes ridicule Christians as having an ‘invisible friend’ [in Jesus]… We think friendship is juvenile, but it is not. Friendship may well be the hardest thing of all… it makes us different from the person we would be if we were alone, and, I daresay, it makes Jesus different as well… As Jesus risks […]
Transformation – June 2, 2022
“For years I’ve told stories in teaching and, from time to time, at storytelling festivals and conferences. But this experience of being heard by a handful of pine trees in an Ozark wilderness finally pushed me over the edge, requiring that I acknowledge—humbly, and with amazement—that I, too, am a storyteller. A storyteller is one […]
