This Saturday morning at the WBGL Radio station in west Champaign, IL, I will lead 100 folks in a 3-hour morning seminar I call “Grieving in a Forward Direction.” In preparation for the seminar, here […]

A pastor I was counseling asked, “Am I going crazy? The last 14 months have felt like one long day. I’ve been uptight, mad and worried. Our church has lost so much in the last […]

Every time I reflect on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7, I am struck with how Jesus brings it to a conclusion, laying these choices before me: There is a wide gate in […]

“It is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment.”  Hebrews 9:27 —– Nearly every day in the Arizona Republic (Arizona’s flagship newspaper), there appear between 4-6 obituaries with names of people […]

Just after 6am this morning I pulled onto Thompson Peak Parkway in Scottsdale, Arizona, and headed to St. Patrick Community Church, one of 40 Catholic parishes in the diocese of Phoenix. Standing in the dark, […]

“How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives” … Annie Dillard —– A few days after my dad turned 64 my mom called me from the bank where she worked. […]

In the summer of 2017, my Pastor-to-Pastor Initiatives board gave me an 11-week sabbatical. Jennifer and I came to Phoenix that summer, where I studied spiritual formation at Phoenix Seminary with Dr. Ted Wueste. I […]

Today, January 25, is the Feast of the conversion of St Paul the Apostle. Among the churches celebrating this day are the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches. I have tried to imagine the Apostle Paul […]