Listening is a way to declutter someone else's mind.

It's #Juneteenth. We honor a time when some citizens and government leaders were working for just treatment and freedom for all humans in our country. We also remember those who wanted some people to be treated as less than human. May we remember, and learn, and act.

Hope makes the most sense when things seem to be at their worst.

Why when I go to a meeting and it gets cancelled does it still feel like going to class and then leaving if the professor doesn't show up in the first five minutes?

Jesus told great stories, but they weren't always easy to understand. I recently wrote about this one he told where people who worked the least got paid the same as those who worked the most. finds.life.church/parable-of-the…

The way you treat people who others dehumanize is the way you treat Jesus. According to Jesus in Matthew 25 and throughout the Gospel.

It's okay to not fight on here.

It's okay to stop scrolling and put your phone back down to be where you are, with who you're with, now.

It’s okay to forgive people who say unkind, untrue, or uneducated things about what you love or believe.

This is simple but true. I will vote yes for at least trying just about any reasonable idea to keep people from shooting at kids in school.

The Postal Service was some kind of peak in music.

Let's comfort all who grieve, and let's imagine together a new future without killing and violence.

The kind of prayer that changes the person praying and leads to action seems to be the kind we need right now. Here's an example of that kind of prayer. finds.life.church/prayer-for-pai…

More listening. More empathy. More eating together. Less screen time. Less news-as-entertainment. Less politic as religion.

Following Jesus mostly about being formed into someone who loves others so well that they are in fact experiencing the unconditional love of God.

Give something you feel like you can't afford to someone who you know won't repay.

Yes, do for others what you wish someone would do for you. But, perhaps more importantly, ask others what they wish someone would do for them, and then do that.