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I wouldn’t go. There are bumper stickers around the Tampa Bay Area that say “Terry Would Go”. They’re a tribute to Terry Tomalin, who was the outdoors editor for the St. Pete/Tampa Bay Times and by all accounts a force of nature. I have friends who were close to Terry and are still deeply affected…
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Hey, so I found a great way to get thrown off a cliff by an angry crowd! One of the things that Luke Johnson’s commentary on the Gospel of Luke has helped me see is how the author of this Gospel focuses on reordering events to help tell his story of Jesus, even to the…
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It’s often striking, the discrepancy between what gets called “Good News” in the Bible and what we who read it think of it. Luke’s third chapter is not very long and a lot of it seems kind of boring, because it’s primarily about setting the scene for the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. Amidst an opening…
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I have been low-level obsessed with an ad, and the questions it raises. A friend sent along this phenomenal ad from Italian coffeemaker Lavazza this week, and of course what is so striking is how relevant the message is. Even more so when you learn that it’s from a speech Charlie Chaplin made in 1940.…
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As many times I have now watched and listened to Hamilton, “Wait For It” remains far and away my favorite song from the show. It might have been Luke’s too. There is so much to say about the Gospel of Luke, and in its first two chapters, so much is said. Tonight I want to…
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Luke is the prequel to the Acts of the Apostles and my favorite of the four gospels. It’s written so beautifully that I had to put the Good News translation away and go back to a more traditional one that is true to its poetry. There’s a lot, just in Chapter 1. Last week I…
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Only putting this here because I won’t be able to read my own handwriting. Broken Everywhere I look, I see brokenness. Our planet is broken. Our economy is broken. We throw away the unborn We throw away the old We throw away the workers we call heroes but don’t pay We throw away the women…
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“You’re off the list!” When I worked with the Devil Rays, there was a guy in our sales group who, whenever he was upset with someone for some small grievance, would bellow “You’re off the list,” and summarily cross them off of his interoffice phone list. This happened a lot, almost always for pretty inconsequential…
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What do you get to do, and what do you have to do? Have you ever made a list of the things you do in a day or week, big and small, and sorted them out between the things you get to do and the things you have to do? The guys who started Life…
