Author Archives: Don Follis

My mom slowly, very slowly, is recovering from taking a bad fall at my brother's northwestern, IA, home last Saturday [April 25].  She's dizzy and sleeps a lot, which her doc says is a good thing to do.  They don't want her out of bed until this Sunday, at the earliest.   It's really the pits.TheyContinueContinue reading “Waiting for the body to mend…”

Does this mean they haven't had visitors forever?Does it mean they have their act together so much visitors would love it, that it is in fact the hottest church in town ?Does it mean church leaders expect church members to be inviting people and this is a reminder to them?I would like to have been in the meeting whenContinueContinue reading “We do expect you to visit, in case you wondered!”

This artist's rendition of Jesus leaving the 99 to find the one lost sheep is at least theologically correct.  The lost sheep is black, not white.  Woo-Hoo!  You usually see this scene rendered with Jesus carrying a little white lamb on his shoulders.  Of course, we all know that the only lost sheep/people … basedContinueContinue reading “The lost sheep always is black”

This is the old Kansas State University football stadium, taken from my Holiday Inn room last weekend.  I used to run the stairs almost every day back in the day. Yeah, baby.  I can still do it.  Double click the picture.  That is indeed, me.  I still remember after the very first Rocky movie whatContinueContinue reading “Rocky, John Denver and “run, baby, run!””

This weekend my wife, Jennifer, and I are back in Manhattan, Kansas.  This photo is of the K-State Union, where I used to eat breakfast when I was a student back in the days before cars, or even bikes!  :)After I started to take my faith seriously, I decided to transfer from K-State to aContinueContinue reading “Visiting the old haunts…”

Columbine was 10 years ago.  Sooo… much ink spilled over why.  Bad parenting, psychosis, awful video games, violent television, blah, blah, blah…Four thoughts…1.  Columnist Leonard Pitts gets it.  2.  Skim highly-regarded researcher George Barna's latest research on why so many young people say they do not believe in the existence of either Satan or the Holy Spirit.  …ContinueContinue reading “The depraved, redeemed heart of humankind victoriously limps along…”

One of my favorite bloggers Seth Godin gets it in his words below on how those around us can read us.  They know there's a lot lying beneath our cute little iceberg. Reminds me of James chapter 3 when James writes that not many should aspire to be teachers because they will be judge moreContinueContinue reading “How do people judge you?”

   Here's what the Irish Jesuits at Sacred Space are saying about true peace …  Even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. (2 Corinthians. 5:16) In the period after the Resurrection, the little community of Christians grew round the presence of Jesus; but it wasContinueContinue reading “Post-resurrection Peace … the true peace of Christ”