Bearing the Load

Bearing the Load

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The Windsor Guildhall, which serves as the town hall for the community of Windsor in the county of Berkshire, England, has two claims to fame.  In recent years it’s become a fashionable place...
Holy Ground

Holy Ground

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Some years ago, a woman named Patricia Miller, who worked in a hospital emergency room, recounted an experience that changed her life. Things at first didn’t seem to be heading in that...
Moving Into the Neighborhood

Moving Into the Neighborhood

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Long-time residents of Chicago can still remember when their mayor moved into hell. Actually, Jane Byrne and her husband moved into the area on the Near North Side that had long been known as Little Hell.  That...
Send Me Home

Send Me Home

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Over the course of a ministry that spanned more than four decades, Tim Keller taught people how to live. After he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2020, Keller began to focus on teaching people how to...
Blowin’ in the Wind

Blowin’ in the Wind

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. It’s Dandelion Explosion Season.  About the time that daily temperatures hover in the mid-70s, countless trillions of dandelions suddenly begin to bloom. They thrive on all seven...