by jakeowensby | Nov 18, 2022 | Luke 23:33-43, The Kingdom of God
If you’ve always been on a roll—your kids are always happy and healthy and cooperative and like your company, your career ladder feels has always been more like an up escalator, your romantic life is the stuff of steamy novels—then the reflections that follow might...
by jakeowensby | Nov 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
My mother learned English informally by immersion. She entered America through Ellis Island from war-ravaged Austria speaking only her native German. By the time I came along, her accent had grown faint. She navigated our English-speaking world effortlessly, but her...
by jakeowensby | Nov 18, 2016 | Luke 23:33-43, Proper 29 C, Uncategorized
My earliest boyhood reading came mainly from three sources. Over my father’s objections, my mother purchased Compton’s Encyclopedia on a volume-a-month, pay-as-you-go plan. I devoured each one before the next arrived. Somehow a 1950’s-vintage Boy Scout manual had...
