What an ancient story, a new Matt Damon film, and my father’s bedtime voice taught me about the journey There are some books we remember because we read them and there are others we remember because someone we loved read them to us. For me, Homer’s Odyssey belongs to the second kind. Christopher Nolan’s new … Read more
There are places that athat are written into your bones. For me, that place is Papillion, Nebraska. It is the place where I was born, and raised. The place where I learned what it meant to belong to a community. Even if I didn’t yet have the words to explain it. And, by the grace … Read more
There are some images of Jesus that do not merely ask to be looked at, hey ask to be endured. The image seen above, titled Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum, is one of them. Christ looks out at us with the crown of thorns pressed into His brow, His robe blood-red and his face bearing that strange mixture … Read more
I know I am late to the party, but I finally sat down and watched the Billy Joel documentary on HBO, Billy Joel: And So It Goes. As I watched it, I found myself thinking again about the strange and wonderful thing that happens when a songwriter becomes part of the furniture of your life. … Read more
“My cup runneth over.” — Psalm 23:5 Every Father’s Day, I find myself thinking about all the things my dad did for me over the years. Like most fathers, he worked hard, provided for his family, fixed things that were broken, and perhaps most importantly, he taught lessons that seemed ordinary at the time, but have … Read more
