Weddings are Joyful! Last Saturday, my son married an amazing young woman, Grace Bloomfield Milroy, whom we are honored to welcome into our family (pictures below). It was one of the best,…
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The Value of the Vulnerable
October 5, 2023
he said they’d found a brothel on the dig he did last night I asked him how they know he sighed: a pit of babies’ bones a pit of newborn babies’ bones…
Get Fat, Part Two
June 19, 2023
In my last blog I discussed Christian meditation as a practice that helps us win the battle over our minds. It is, in Thomas Brooks’ words, “a soul-fattening duty.” For part two,…
Get Fat, Part One
May 25, 2023
Our staff recently finished reading True Devotion: In Search of Authentic Spirituality by Allan Chapple. It is an insightful and practical book that describes devotional practices in the Reformed and Puritan tradition,…
Lifted Hands
April 24, 2023
I do not have the most aesthetically pleasing hands. My fingers are a bit boney and crooked (my mother will tell you that’s from cracking my knuckles, but I don’t really buy…
Find Your Ometepec
March 16, 2023
It is Thursday afternoon as I write this, so I have had several nights of normal sleep after returning from Mexico, without the benefit of two other men in my room who…