The Slide (An Excerpt)
In the fall, I posted excerpts from two books I’m currently working on: Shelter Me, an historical novel about a French village that...
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Feb 1, 20188 min read
Let the Sermon be Interrupted
i “Rabbi, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Once again Jesus is interrupted. It must happen to Him a dozen times or...
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Jan 2, 20173 min read
The Father’s Love
This past summer, rummaging through a table of used books, I found Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Last American Man. It’s her 2002 biography of...
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Oct 11, 20162 min read
Giving Good Gifts
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? …....
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Jun 27, 20163 min read
Better Living through Indignation
I’m trying to become more indignant. And also less so. It turns out indignation – not its presence or absence, but its cause and its...
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Mar 14, 20142 min read
Around the Table
I love my new job. And I loved my old job. For 24 years, I was a pastor, and it was good (except the times it wasn’t). This past 7...
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Apr 19, 20132 min read
How to Have a Beautiful Soul (or Avoid an Ugly One)
Notes from Underground is something else entirely. It’s the jumbled confession of a jaded twisted man, immersed in his own torment and...
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Mar 15, 20133 min read
Difficult People
Bunk Mates in Heaven A pastor friend of mine quipped the other day: “There are some people I couldn’t warm up to even if I was cremated...
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May 17, 20123 min read
Golfing In Hades
My new friend Tony – ethnically Chinese, culturally Welsh – has managed what I thought no man could: lured me back into the game of golf....
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Apr 21, 20122 min read
What I Discovered In Scotland
My daughter Nicola and I have been on a road trip through Scotland. It is a remarkable country, enfolding a vast range of geography:...
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Sep 3, 20112 min read
Is This the Girl I Carried?
My mother used to sing, in a scattershot way (she forgot entire lines and stitched the holes together by humming and mumbling), songs...
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