These prayers, though, are also very provincial.  They’re about our real situation because mostly, this is what we know about when we’re...

My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were nearly the last people to...

Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...

“I was a stranger…” It’s Saturday when we leave Schladming, Austria, a town with which I’m familiar through twenty years of visits for...

Most years, the first or second week of December, I’m in the little town of Schladming, in the Austrian Alps, to teach at a Bible school...

All this has been unfolding at the same time I’ve been preparing to embark on a sabbatical journey, which will begin with 40 days of...

In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...

It was supposed to be the Cascades… I spoke with a couple last week who lost their child to cancer at the age of six.  As we talked of...

The training of the body of is vital for people like us, who have spent most of our waking hours during adulthood sitting in chairs.  ...

every minute matters.. especially the last one!! I have fought the good fight.  I have finished the course.  I have kept the faith – Paul...

Today’s “door picture” will remind us of my wife’s 13 years of faithful service at Seattle Pacific University. Where, in the wake of...

My oldest daughter is a Seattle Pacific Alum and writes from Germany this morning as she ponders the tragic shootings here in Seattle and...

I process by writing… and I’m here in Fresno because my mom’s resting, and ready to go home and be with Jesus.  Here’s what I’m thinking...

The Achilles story is appropriate  because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes.   Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

a book about the importance of opening oneself to direct encounter with creation, in preparation for a  40 day hike in the Alps this...

If success is a mountain, I’m an accidental climber. Has it ever happened to you?  You’ve been working hard for goals you believe in for...

There’s a hearing.  It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...

It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective...

Dissociative disorder is defined as a “disruption or breakdown of memory, awareness, identity or perception.”  It’s a common occurrence...

On that same sofa, a tilt of the head to the left and I see the fire, which represents warmth, safety (when confined in the firebox), and...