On Ruth: The Loyalty We Rarely Discuss
The book of Ruth is often read as a love story. I keep returning to it as a story about the kind of loyalty that costs something.
Continue reading → October Light
A poem about the particular slant of light that arrives in October and what it does to the ordinary world.
Continue reading →On Asking Better Questions
The quality of your questions shapes the quality of your thinking. Most of us never examine the questions we're asking.
Continue reading →The Last Sermon
A short piece of fiction about an old pastor, an empty church, and the Sunday morning when everything he thought he knew about preaching came undone.
Continue reading →A Morning Prayer for Ordinary Days
Not every morning begins in crisis. Sometimes what we need is a prayer for the unremarkable days — the ones that ask nothing dramatic of us.
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