I don’t sell lots of books by most standards. Actual people, however, at times of curiosity or need do order what I’ve collected, and I’m grateful. A year ago, in the month before funerals changed, I released a book about how to lead funerals and… Read More
“What’s wrong?” we ask a coworker who looks stunned after a phone call. “My mom just died.” It’s a moment that can leave us speechless. Or maybe it should. Because we feel a need to fill the space (and our discomfort) with words. We start… Read More
In the middle days of Twitter, a hashtag started in Fort Wayne. #callitoff was the tweeted cry of high school students begging Curtis Smith to include enough snow in the weather forecast to call off school the next day. It was a pretty powerful social… Read More
Mother’s Day in the US in 2021 is May 9. The advertisements are already starting. I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile. I think it’s time to finish it. I don’t hate Mother’s Day, though I am frustrated by what it has done. By… Read More
When Hope and I were talking about how to finish the book ( God. We Still Need You: A Year of Pandemic Prayer and Practice From a Hospital Chaplain.), some kind of afterword made sense. And when we started talking about who to ask, Hope said,… Read More
A collection of my prayers and reflections during the last year was published recently (God. We Still Need You). I want to tell a little bit of what led to it coming out. +++ We were walking from the emergency room to the cath lab… Read More
My new collection of prayers and reflections from the past year is now available.: God. We Still Need You: A year of pandemic prayer and practice from a hospital chaplain. +++ Here’s the back cover: Healthcare workers go to work every day no matter what.… Read More
My next-to-last book was a collection of Sunday prayers, prayed in the hospital chapel where I’m a chaplain. Each Sunday, I interacted with the texts for the week and with God and with the people watching on the closed-circuit channel and the people reading at my blog.… Read More
Jen Bradbury. Called: A Novel about Youth Ministry Transitions. The Youth Cartel, 2020. I’ve known Jen for several years. We’ve worked on some research projects together. I asked her to write about one of my books. For me, she’s the person who asks me to… Read More
I’ve written about everyone else at a CODE BLUE–an event, usually in a hospital where a person’s heart has stopped and a team of people gathers to restart it. I wrote about how to talk with God about all the people who are gathering. When… Read More
