I happen to be writing this on a Monday.  Technically speaking, according to my faith tradition and the way I live my life, yesterday was my Sabbath.   I…   woke up and showered before church (a morning with time…

I’ve been “in church” for most of my life.  But for all my worship experiences with so many different believers in different understandings of faith…  for all my reading and listening and asking questions and listening more… for all my…

I had an insight into a friend’s life the other day.   She’d just come back from the Chicago International Film Festival‘s Opening Night showing of the movie Stone, starring Ed Norton (who starred in the first movie I remember that…

I read this the other day:  This is love– to be entrusted with suffering.  (I read it here)    And I haven’t quite been able to get it out of my head just yet.   At first I read it and just…

So I am really working on a post, but then I read this one today and figured everyone needed to see it.  Will post mine when I get done processing this one from here: The whole post is there,…

That may not have even been entirely honest… if by “pile up” you think i mean merely letting a few things stand in a pile.   No… when i let things pile up, i REALLY let them do so.  …

I live in Chicago… If you’ve ever been here, you realize we have a large number of homeless.   I love the homeless.   Particularly now that my job takes me around so many people who are far from homeless.…

This morning I decided to go into work a little later.   Went up to the coffee shop 30 minutes north of work, instead… reading a book for a book club i’m trying to decide if i want to join.…