“Boys, would you please pay attention”
Way back in the day when I was 12, my brother Bob and I sat in church on Sunday morning next to each other and made paper airplanes with our church bulletins. Or kicked each […]
Some things we hear or say are not gossip — really
“The words of a gossip are like choice morsels. They go down to the inmost parts.” Proverbs 18:8 —– Having had the privilege of counseling or mentoring hundreds of pastors, I know what a sacred […]
Driving west through the mountains is good for the soul
—– It happens every time I drive west in the summer, heading for the Rocky Mountains. Somewhere near the Iowa-Nebraska border, my mind shifts into neutral. It happened again 3 weeks ago. Late in the […]
One of my favorite morning prayers
The Rule of Saint Benedict is a set of directions for monastic life written by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century in Italy. Nearly every week I am drawn to pray Benedict’s morning prayer. […]
Even one of my favorite pastors & writers, wouldn’t you just know, had very clay feet
Over the weekend I read the authorized biography of Eugene Peterson by Winn Collier. In A Burning in My Bones [Waterbrook, 2021], Collier paints a picture of a man who wanted to be a saint […]
Here’s a prayer I know I can pray
One summer when I was in college, I worked on a paint crew that included several guys who one day aspired to be pastors. During our lunch break, we often got into theological discussions. Two guys […]
Finding rhythms of quiet in my life
My friend Kelly Skinner runs the Soul Care Urban Retreat Center in Urbana. This is an interview Kelly did with me for her podcast “Everything is Spiritual.” We talked about soul care, the rhythms of […]
When we have to take a stand
This is Russell Moore interviewing Rachel Denhollander about sexual abuse in the church. Denhollandar was sexually abused by Olympic gymnastic physician Larry Nassar, who now is serving the rest of his life behind bars for […]
