In the Garden Several weeks ago, I spent three days with a small group of pastoral colleagues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We’ve been gathering

When I was a kid, I had an uncle named Randy who joined our extended family as he married one of my aunts. Randy was

A Conversation With The Boss I listened a bit ago to a conversation between two musical legends. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, band leader and drummer of

Bazan One of the holiday albums in heavy rotation in my Spotify app every December is David Bazan’s Dark Sacred Night. It’s no Gene Autry

Luminous Shards There’s a rectangular stained glass lamp that sits near my desk in my study. It’s had a place there for years. My wife

Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ,The holy supper which we are about to celebrateIs a feast of remembrance, communion, and hope…from the Reformed Church in

Group Session “Can you even teach people to apologize?” My wife Monica wondered this aloud as we sat together over espresso and croissants at our

Finishing the Last Battle The night before her final day of fifth grade, we arrived at the concluding chapter of The Last Battle. In the