Category: Life Matters

What Richard Sherman Taught Me

“A great win ruined by one player’s garbage. Come on, man” I hastily wrote this Facebook Post last Sunday, within minutes of the now famous post game rant from Seattle Seahawks CB Richard Sherman. My son and I watched the game. We didn’t have strong rooting interests, but, we decided based on their cool uniforms, […]

Castles Burning

This is an essay about the first time I heard Neil Young’s “Live at Massey Hall”. It was on the back patio of my older brother’s house the summer after my first year of seminary. But before I talk about that, I want to fast forward a year later, same place, same brother. The night […]

Home

(Originally published in the Journal Review, December 2013 Home. Among the themes inseparable from the Christmas Season is the idea of “home”. Whether it’s the cozy images of families gathered together on snowy nights around a fire or the longing lyrics of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” the Holiday Season is a time focused on […]

Airport Prayer

(Originally published in the Journal Review, October 2013 Last weekend I had the, well, I wouldn’t call it pleasure, of spending many hours in an airport. I’ll spare the details of delayed flights and missed connections. Needless to say, I was glad to be finally back on hoosier soil late last Saturday night. It was […]

Stupid Internet

“Why is the stupid internet not working again?!” I was met with the exasperated words of my 12 year old son on a recent Saturday morning. We try to limit media/screen time in our house during the week, so Saturday mornings are a time he looks forward to, as the rules are relaxed for a […]

What is Love?

In the ’90s there was this popular sketch on Saturday Night Live, so popular is was made into a movie. It featured two seemingly good-hearted but painfully awkward and socially inept brothers who would be seen going to the clubs trying to get attention and maybe find “love”. Throughout the whole skit, a repetitive dance […]

Jesus and Stuff

Stuff Hides, Stuff Begets Stuff, Stuff is Heavy. Okay, that’s a lot of “stuff”, I know, but stick with me. This past week my family did a “stuff purge”. A few times a year we go through the house and fill up bags with clothes we don’t wear, games we no longer play, movies we […]

The Good Old Days

I heard a wise old saying the other day. It went something like, “I wish there was a way to know that you’re in ‘The Good Old Days’ before you’ve actually left them.” Wait, that’s not an old saying, it was one of the last lines from the character Andy Bernard from the TV Series […]