• Avoiding Pain

    Avoiding Pain

    This story is less about the miracle of giving sight to the blind, but the way the leaders avoid seeing grace.

  • Seth’s Stamps for Emails

    Seth’s Stamps for Emails

    Email is already broken. And it’s going to get a lot worse. We need a lot more than individual inbox zero tactics.

  • Triangulation

    Triangulation

    With triangulation, the best thing to do is to avoid it. The second best thing is to get out of the middle of it.

  • More than a healing (Lent 4A)

    More than a healing (Lent 4A)

    When Jesus gives sight to the man born blind, faith leaders try to destroy all the good that Jesus is doing.

  • A Cause for Celebrating

    A Cause for Celebrating

    The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.

  • Fast—a thought on keeping and breaking it

    Fast—a thought on keeping and breaking it

    In Lent, we are called to a season of fasting—an idea we most associate with “giving something up” rather than pausing from.

  • Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)

    Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)

    After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.

  • Having to

    Having to

    The boundaries evident in the passage about the woman at the well are evocative. And so is the way Jesus crosses them.