by jakeowensby | Feb 28, 2020 | Matthew 4:1-11
It’s not like me. Honestly. But I confess that I binge-watched the entire first season of The Good Place. Friends have been assuring me that I would love it. One of the main characters is an ethicist, and I too was once a philosophy professor. As it turns out, the...
by jakeowensby | Sep 27, 2019 | Luke 16:19-31
Joy caught herself nodding off at the wheel. She and Meredith were making the three-and-half-hour drive back home from New Orleans. On the night before, they had taken in a performance of “Rent.” Lack of sleep and the onset of a cold had left Joy feeling wrung out. So...
by jakeowensby | Jan 7, 2017 | Baptism of Our Lord, Matthew 3:13-17, Uncategorized
[Listen to the Audio] If you’re traveling north on US 165 from Lake Charles to Alexandria, Louisiana, you’ll see the billboard on your left in Oakdale. A man engulfed in flames is turning his anguished face toward a heaven so distant that neither he nor we can see it....
