on the walk

Alex Lozada draws our attention to two radical acts of Christian resistance.

How would you respond?

on the walk

-Ethan

I occasionally spend my free time reading blogs.  One that I frequent is the blog First Things.  It generally presents perspectives that are enough different from mine that I am challenged to think and question my assumptions.  Here is a link to a recent post that has stuck with me as a compelling call to the beauty of all life, and our call to love even those that may seem less than normal by our common standards.

Check it out.

on the walk

-Ethan

My son (he’s five) has been reading the Bible lately.

We have had a Children’s bible for some time, but as he has begun to read on his own, we bought a new Bible that is even easier to read and he has been reading it a lot. It is wonderful. He is so excited that he can read the stories for himself and is pleased to be able to share in these stories that he knows are so important to our family.

There have been a few complicated side-effects, mostly due to the complicated questions that my son has begun to ask. Tonight’s complicated questions were about Saul. He was reading the early sections of the David story. He asked, “Daddy, is Saul a good guy or a bad guy?” I answered carefully, “Well, he does somethings that are good but then he later does lots of things that are bad. So I guess he is both.” Continue Reading »

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

I heard from my mom that a dear lady named Cookie Helsabeck passed away. She was friend in Tennessee. I am not able to write a fitting tribute to her remarkably lived life. She was the kind of person who made so many feel loved. In particular, she lived a life that was not bound to this earth. She loved life and lived it well, but she lived it with a trajectory toward her true home.

on the walk

-Ethan