Posts from 2022
What Do You Do on Sabbatical? Part 5 – Spiritual Health
I think this will be the last one I’m going to write. As such, I may have to squeeze a skunk story in here because I don’t really know where else to put it. Oh, and if you’ve just stumbled onto this one, you don’t need to read the previous posts before looking at this one.…
What Do You Do on Sabbatical? Part 4 – Physical Health
Real quick, if this is the first of these posts about sabbatical that you’ve read, don’t even worry about it. They’re not required to be read in any particular order. The idea is that I had 10 weeks worth of time called sabbatical. Sabbatical is kind of a unique thing and folks…
What Do You Do on Sabbatical? Part 3 – Read & Write
There are two previous episodes of this series of blog posts, but these aren’t really meant to be a continuous story thread or anything. I was doing all of these activities more or less all throughout the whole 10-week period. I’d cook most afternoons (some longer than others).…
What Do You Do on Sabbatical? Part 2 – Cook
If you didn’t read Part 1, I’m cool with that. Who am I? You don’t owe me anything. I was on sabbatical for 10 weeks and probably most people want the general idea of what I was doing for that time. Others may want a little more detail. These posts are for the latter kind. This…
What Do You Do on Sabbatical? Part 1 – Vacation
As I sat down on my first full day back in the office (I snuck in Monday afternoon without alerting anybody), I began to imagine all the many conversations we’re likely to have. I can’t wait for them. I’m excited to hear from you and to share some of what I did over sabbatical. But, it occurred to…
Why Policy Matters – It’s about People
I’m writing this post on a Wednesday morning – the Wednesday after the tragic shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Like all of us, I suspect, I’m overwhelmed with emotion in hearing this story. I’m hurt and angry and despairing and fully aware that my feelings are a single teardrop in…
Maundy Thursday
Many of you have responded to me about the Maundy Thursday… service? Event? Thing? However we might describe it, I knew how I wanted it to feel and I think the evening accomplished that. I’m grateful to all the people who helped to make it so. It felt… well, we’ll get back to that in a second. Maundy Thursday is about the Last Supper and when you read about…
Spaghetti and Dessert!
Deleted Sermon Scenes: Ukrainian Tutor
Sometimes as a preacher, you have to edit out the bits of sermons that just don’t quite fit. Sermons are a bit like movies or stories or poems in that you only have so much time to accomplish something. It forces you to be kind of ruthless with what ends up in the final draft and sometimes that means leaving something you really want to say on the cutting room floor. So,…
CBF Ukraine Relief Fund
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) field personnel are working to provide relief to Ukrainians. Read about their progress and give to the Ukraine Relief Fund.