TUESDAY APRIL 15 -- An American traveler planned a long safari to Africa. He was a compulsive man, loaded down with maps, timetables, and agendas. Coolies had been engaged from a local tribe to carry the cumbersome load of supplies,…
TUESDAY APRIL 8 -- “It may not be in our power to determine how things will unfold, but it is in our power to decide how we respond. It is in our power to hold on to the practices that…
TUESDAY APRIL 1 -- “You are a light. You are the light.” John Lewis wrote, “Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light.”Yes, and amen. And I will confess that we preachers find it seductive to…
TUESDAY MAR 25 -- This week, let us take heart in the truth that, “In the shelter of each other the people live.”My head (and my heart) find solace in this story from my memory, about connection and shelter, both…
TUESDAY MAR 18 -- "What is Real?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and…
TUESDAY MAR 11 -- We live in a world that needs healing, from the gentle hands of grace.And here’s the good news: grace is alive and well in our broken world.Writer Kim Rosen visited a safe house in Kenya for…
TUESDAY MAR 4 -- A Nigerian woman, a physician at a teaching hospital in the United States, attended a Gordon MacDonald lecture. After, she approached Gordon, to offer kind words of affirmation. She introduced herself using an American name."If I…
TUESDAY FEB 25 -- I was so grateful to spend time with those who gathered at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim. My topic: This little light of mine—making a difference in our world.From the Gospel of Matthew, “You are…
TUESDAY FEB 18 -- Let us be this alive. No longer afraid…Gratefully, our topic this week will keep taking me back to baltering. (To balter is to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.)When we hear, “Let…
TUESDAY FEB 11 -- "So; chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength and discipline. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love.…