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 | Feb 24, 2023 | 1 Lent, 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 when it first hit Netflix a few years back. Friends had been assuring me that I would love it. One of the main characters is an ethicist, and I used to...
by jakeowensby | Nov 4, 2022 | Calling, Luke 22:24-27, Resonance, Self
Glenn Close won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in 2019. Everybody expected Lady Gaga to get the award for “A Star is Born.” Including a stunned Glenn Close. Close had starred in “The Wife,” the film about a woman who had secretly ghostwritten all of her...