There is a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that has resonated deeply in my soul.  As a person that grew up in a very homogenous white farming community in Michigan, I only had the thing I read to go on.  I read the speech in high school.  And this…

I think all of us have had a fairly common experience in the past several months.  We all certainly face our own unique mix of troubles, but one thing is common.  It has been a hard time.  There was the early stress of quarantine and learning new habits of working from home.  There has been…

Fall is my favorite season except for every four years.  There are some political seasons that I wish we could just skip and go straight to winter. But this morning, God met me in a quiet moment as I was reading an obscure corner of the book of Daniel.  Daniel is offering a confession to…