“Ha ha. Anyway, I’m OK. Actually, I’m in a better place now, you know? Having ‘Angel At Large’ status for a while isn’t so bad.”

I was right on top of her, taking down the platform feeder, when I finally noticed the tiny chickadee struggling frantically. She was caught in

If we think of the church as a garden—or maybe a vineyard, to be more in keeping with Jesus’ kingdom parables—that would suggest that we

We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.

Of course, things could be worse. You could find yourself in a frightening blank nothingness in which you can’t find any WiFi. You might have

Even if we build various systems and institutions to help us do that lamb-feeding work, every day is still, in essence, an exercise in coming

Domination and destruction are easy and cruel. Serving, building, creating: that takes humility, which is true strength. So how can we provide a counter-narrative in