After wisely and thoughtfully writing 1,400 of these High Calling Reflections, my good friend, Mark Roberts, has passed the baton to me...
In the 1300s, a merchant guild built a magnificent cathedral in Coventry, England. Its chapels honored different vocations ...
It’s a humble sort of word, goodness. Perhaps that’s why we often overlook it or underestimate its creative power as a prophetic witness of the Kingdom of God.
We tell stories, short histories of people living out their faith in daily life. Jesus told parables, a kind of story that...
Some guy with a beard and a fading plaid shirt tells me that he’s all about building his life around making Jesus...
When our first child was born, my husband wondered how we would buy diapers. We lived in a small, rural community where my husband served a small, sweet congregation. My husband’s salary was...
The first thing I ever bought with my “own money” was a toy light saber. It wasn’t one of those expensive beauties...
Bob Fraley, one of the top track and field coaches in America, faced a critical career decision. After twenty-three years at Fresno State, the school was eliminating track and field. Fraley's...
My husband took me to Hawaii for my fiftieth birthday. On the morning I turned fifty, we boarded a plane and headed...
“I’m tired,” he said, and the heaviness of his voice pressed in on my chest making it difficult to breathe. “I’m so...
For many years, my only experience with jail was as a token on the corner of the Monopoly board. Sometimes I’d make...
At the cross, Jesus generously gave his life for us. And yet, we can easily take that gift for granted and respond...
For centuries, Holy Week was the focal point of the Christian calendar.
“If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.”
Living beyond mediocrity can mean many different things. I continue to learn that, in some ways, living beyond mediocrity does not mean we need to do more. Instead, I realize, we live beyond...
Several years ago a popular song celebrated the fact that "God is watching us from a distance." From his far away perch, God sees the beauty and harmony of this world, rather than...
This is John’s dispatch to Jesus from his prison cell after hearing “the deeds of Christ.” The sobriety of the question and...
We won’t settle for pseudo-events. We won’t settle for success theater. We will be present together—in the physical world and in the...
A windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves...
I like to be busy and I like to brag that I am busy. But this is not cool.
