A Living Letter

A Living Letter

One of the most significant calls to social transformation in American history sprang from a mood of deep frustration. It was also written in a jail cell. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young Baptist pastor from Atlanta, had come to Birmingham, Alabama in April...
Follow the Clues

Follow the Clues

A few years ago, as the workplace pastor for a faith-friendly healthcare organization, I visited one of the office work teams.I was holding something in my left hand, which was tightly closed. “So what do you think I’m holding right now?  Anybody want to...
An Unhurried Life

An Unhurried Life

We’re not even two weeks into the new year and chronically busy Americans are already becoming anxious.Is there going to be enough time to accomplish what we so recently resolved to make happen in 2022? One of the great human obsessions of the modern age is to...
We Can Both Be Right

We Can Both Be Right

Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner.That memorable 1992 commercial slogan – which promoted “beef as a part of a healthy diet” – is still recognized by more than 80% of Americans.If you think that controversies concerning the eating of red meat are only a few decades old,...
The Surprising Gift of Pain

The Surprising Gift of Pain

Eleven years ago, a 25-year-old Oklahoma resident named Kristi Loyall noticed that her right pinky toe kept going numb.  During a doctor’s visit she was dismayed to learn that she had a rare soft tissue tumor called an epithelioid sarcoma.  Her heart sank...