by jakeowensby | Jun 10, 2022 | John 16:12-15
Rebecca’s friend Rachel ran up to her with big news: “I know who the tooth fairy is.” They were in second grade. The night before, Rachel had awakened while the tooth fairy was exchanging the tooth left under her pillow for a dollar. “It was my dad!” she said....
by jakeowensby | Nov 19, 2021 | John 18:33-37
My father-in-law used to say, “They don’t cut pants as full as they used to.” It didn’t seem to occur to him that he was taking up a bit more space inside those trousers than he did when he was a younger man. This used to make me smile. Until I reached my sixties....
by jakeowensby | Jul 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Shortly after the 2016 election, the actor Denzel Washington was attending a screening of his movie “Fences.” On the red carpet a reporter asked him about a news account claiming that he had switched his vote from Clinton to Trump. He responded, “If you don’t read the...
by jakeowensby | May 15, 2020 | John 14:15-21
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 | Sep 6, 2019 | Luke 14:25-33
“I hear a ‘but’ coming.” Joy and I have said that to each other hundreds of times. We anticipate a “but” when we hear statements like this: “That is a striking shade of chartreuse.” “Those peppers certainly did add some zip to the yogurt.” “Spending...
