Adventures in Missions

I was talking with a friend yesterday… He’s got a good job, a great laugh, monstrously awful luck at picking out girlfriends, and some bad choices that have become bad habits.  He is, in short, like many of us.  …

The firm for which I work had a large event recently, and we’ve been having a number of celebrities around.   Saturday and Sunday I got to work Security for one of these celebrities, a kind, older gentleman at the…

I’m still here.   I’ve heard a lot of stories from people in the last several weeks… good stories, stories that hurt, stories that made us both cry, stories with testimonies of healing and stories full of being in the…

Monday was -6 in Chicago (with windchill).    It was cold.  Freezing.  Below freezing.   The red line to the blue line (underground transfer), the two minute walk to the coffee shop, the two minute walk to the bus stop,…

   I’m not a fan of Christmas.  In America. As celebrated by mass displays of consumerism and greed.  Etc.   I don’t know when it started, probably around the same time I was wearing sweatshirts boycotting Abercrombie & Fitch’s porn…

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…