by jakeowensby | Sep 15, 2023 | Matthew 20:1-16, Proper 20 A
Without Alice, the gears of our society would grind to a halt. You’ve probably seen her hard at work, but maybe you didn’t take careful notice of her. Alice is our neighbor. She cares for our children and for our elderly. She waits tables, checks us out at the grocery...
by jakeowensby | Sep 8, 2023 | Forgiveness, Matthew 18:21-35
J- remembers bits and pieces of that day. Just a toddler, he recalls playing on the floor with his mother, T-. She had bought some cheap plastic dinosaurs for him at the dime store (or the Dollar Store in today’s language), and she looked on as he marched them around...
by jakeowensby | Jul 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Friends, I’m stepping away from weekly posts for the remainder of July and the first week of August. I’ll be taking some time to recharge and to work on my next book. The book’s theme is discipleship in a changing spiritual landscape. Enjoy your...
by jakeowensby | May 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Claudia, Anna, and Amy made a date to share a pizza. It was the Thanksgiving holiday. As Brené Brown tells us in Rising Strong, Claudia was visiting her family in Madison, Wisconsin. Amy—the youngest of these three sisters—had texted Claudia with the pizza invitation....
by jakeowensby | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module onto the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969. I was eleven years old. My mother and I watched Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” on a black and white TV in a cheap motel room. Mom had spent most of her remaining...
by jakeowensby | Feb 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Kate Bowler had been suffering bouts of debilitating intestinal distress for some time. Eventually a specialist diagnosed her condition as cancer. Stage IV cancer. She was 35 years old. A rising star at Duke. Married to her high school sweetheart. And the mother of...
