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Ask Me What I Am Living For

It was a long time ago now, but I clearly remember the day one of my seminary professors came into the classroom, put his lecture notes and books down on the lectern with a thud, scanned the room with an intense and serious look on his face, and asked: “How many of...

Who are the best leaders you have known?

When I say leader, what images flash across your mind? For me, the word conjures up quite a crowded room full of people, many of whom are so different from each other that they wouldn’t be very comfortable with my having gotten them together. There’s George Patton...

Listening is Love’s Finest Art

Love depends on knowledge and acceptance. Love takes the time to find out who you really are: what you think and believe, what you question and doubt, what puzzles and perplexes you, what delights and enlivens you, where you’ve been, what’s happened to you, where you...

Instead of Worry. . .

Fear is faith’s adversary. Fear makes us see the world as a dangerous place, shrouded in darkness and stalked by death. So, we build thick walls around our hearts and high-fences around our loved ones. To protect ourselves from hurt, we push aside adventure. To...

Arriving Where I Started

Early on, I bought the idea—maybe you bought it, too—that the older I got and the more I learned, the more I would know for sure. As time went by, I’d have more understanding and fewer questions. I liked that idea, so I stocked the warehouse of mind full of facts. By...

My Witness: The Way of Jesus is a Way of Hope

A final post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. Our world, torn asunder by division and hostility, needs people who will embrace Jesus’ calling to be peacemakers, not just peacekeepers and conflict-avoiders....

My Witness: The Story of Jesus Makes Sense Out of Life

A fourth post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. For me, no other story makes as much sense out of the perplexity and mystery of life as the story of Jesus. His story fires my imagination and warms my heart. I...

My Witness: God’s Love Gentles our Fears

A third post about “my witness”–brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. God made all people and gave everyone an ineradicable dignity. God loves all people unconditionally and passionately. And, God’s love, made...

My Witness: God Loves All People and the Whole World

A second post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. In the last post, I wrote about my core conviction all people bear God’s image and have, for that reason, ineradicable dignity and inestimable worth. A reading...

My Witness: Everyone Bears God’s Image

A wise teacher told his disciples that the wonder and mystery of God are too vast for words. So they asked him, “Then why do you talk about God at all?” He shrugged and answered: “Why does a bird sing?” The novelist Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: “I said to the almond tree,...