All Kinds

All Kinds

My brother is an archivist. Specifically, he is a digital archivist, meaning that he spends his days editing and organizing the meta-data on digital files (things like the tags, what its titled, file formats, etc) to ensure that they are preserved long-term and can be...
Still Holy

Still Holy

In a meeting with church leaders last week, I offered a check-in question: what part of Holy Week was feeling most resonant with them?  And more than one of them couldn’t name anything. They couldn’t name a single place where Holy Week mattered to them. They...
Friction

Friction

One of the things that our modern world has most successfully removed in our day to day life is friction. We can order necessities with a tap, have food brought to our home, the shows offered to us are only the ones that the algorithm knows we will like, and any...
Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

Now we see through a glass darkly, then we shall see face to face. 1 Corinthians 13:12 A few weeks ago, on our monthly family trip to Costco, my son tried to reach out and grab a lizard on one of the ultra-high definition TVs. I was as surprised as he was when his...
Swing, Batter, Swing

Swing, Batter, Swing

I was talking to a youth ministry friend of mine last week, and he told me about an SOS text he got from a volunteer. The volunteer was leading the 11th and 12th grade boys small group at the large, mainline church where my friend works.  My friend popped into...