The lust for data leads to more and greater hunger. We have become a “data-driven” culture and economy, in which it is assumed that enough of the right data will lead to desired outcomes. Nowhere … [Read more...]
Authentic Desperation
In early 2010, on a group solidarity trip to El Salvador, we inadvertently and unexpectedly became global witnesses to a crime of international proportion. To make a long story short, we traveled … [Read more...]
Diversify the Gene Pool
My dad used to say that clergy were like manure – okay spread out, but in a pile, we stink. He was an attorney no less! Having just spent four days with fourteen thousand writers and publishers, he … [Read more...]
In Or Around Portland, Oregon
For those attending AWP19 in Portland, Oregon this week, come by Unsolicited Press (T9096) on Saturday at 1:00 PM where I will be doing a book signing. The BookFair will be open on Saturday for $5 to … [Read more...]
Ball Don’t Lie
Ball don’t lie. For the pure of heart this is the season of fall foliage, when all the beauty and joy of past months is distilled into an explosion of brilliant colors just before the end. Whether … [Read more...]
Hope Rises
After thirty-plus years of preaching sermons flow naturally. The rhythm of my week more or less moves between the banks of sermon preparation and sermon delivery. Sunday after church, I pop the … [Read more...]
Opening the Mind with a New Lens
Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]
Dance Interrupted
There is a dance between our dreams and vocation that can be interrupted when ambition cuts in. Sometimes we stumble upon what becomes our joy when pursuing a dream from childhood. I knew a … [Read more...]
Healthcare in the Days of Rage
In these angry days of national division, I have been thinking about that old trope of crazy advice from Jesus, to “love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray … [Read more...]
Dog & Cat Owners Unite!
So cold the snow crystalized, a weightless carpet of white gleaming diamonds in vivid moonlight and again in the even colder morning wringing moisture from the air. Thank you, Rabia, for getting my … [Read more...]
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