Almost every night for the past two and a half years, I put my Dad to bed. We did the same thing every night. After visiting with one another for a while, it’d be bedtime. […]

Almost every night for the past two and a half years, I put my Dad to bed. We did the same thing every night. After visiting with one another for a while, it’d be bedtime. […]
Between the cross and the empty tomb Are the hours Of a strange Sabbath, A brutal pause, A death-filled rest, A peace-less peace. This is where we live our lives: One long Holy Saturday, Where […]
Emptiness echoes everywhere. I walk hospital halls Empty of visitors, Passing rooms Empty of patients Who have delayed their operations Till better days. I pass by parks With yellow taped play structures Empty of children, […]
I’ve seen so many dead bodies this past year that I’ve lost count — at least forty and among them my Mom. Death is a bad joke. It’s a riddle that confounds us all. There’s […]
It’s Easter Fools Day. Not often, but sometimes Easter lands on April 1 or April Fools Day. And I think it’s wonderfully appropriate. On that first Easter Sunday 2,000 years ago, no one showed up […]
Where does the line between innocence and guilt lie? In some regards, we’re all complicit in this interwoven world, where a bargain buy at Target is made by sweat shop labor in Cambodia. And in […]
When my Mom had a massive stroke 27 years ago that left her body significantly handicapped, I was left with a question that was new to me but had been asked for thousands of years […]
As those who live in this tragic beauty called life, as those who live at the intersection of sorrow and joy, we approach death with a strange mix of emotions. As those who follow Jesus, […]
I don’t get sunrise services on Easter morning. When I look back over my life of church stuff, I can’t remember a sunrise service that I liked. I never wanted to get out of bed. […]