by Jeremy | May 29, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
…is to understand. It’s great to have the best argument, the clearest articulation, and the cleverest presentation. But the (often frustrating) truth is that none of those things amount to a hill of beans if we can’t understand the person we’re...
by Jeremy | May 22, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
The coronavirus changed things. It doesn’t matter how you feel about it or whether you disagree with how it’s being handled. It changed things, and it changed them fast. Think back to the beginning of this year, when COVID-19 was just beginning to emerge...
by Jeremy | Apr 17, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
This is something my wife got me thinking about a couple days ago. One of the more popular hashtags on social media right now is #SafeAtHome. People are using it to highlight pictures and discussions about what they and others are doing to stay safe and stay home...
by Jeremy | Apr 14, 2020 | Holy Day
My least favorite side-effect from this global quarantine has been the way it makes the holy days feel. We’re all home more often. We all have fewer opportunities (and fewer good reasons) to leave home. It’s easy to feel stuck, isolated, and trapped—even...
by Jeremy | Apr 3, 2020 | Holy Day
“For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.” What a weighty, uncomfortable verse. Members of the church in Corinth were dead—not just sick, not just inconvenienced, not just troubled, but dead—because they didn’t treat the...
