by jakeowensby | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hurricane Laura pushed into our home in central Louisiana around 3:00 a.m. She had crashed into southwest Louisiana earlier as a Category 4 storm and had dropped to Category 2 by the time the winds were felling our trees, downing our power lines, and rattling our...
by jakeowensby | Feb 2, 2018 | 2 Epiphany, 5 Epiphany B, Mark 1:29-39
Portions of my morning walk with Joy and our dog Gracie take us through the Kisatchie National Forest. In the winter months we wear headlamps to light our way, because we return home before the sun rises. Eyes gleam back at us from the woods. Owls announce their...
by jakeowensby | Feb 19, 2017 | 7 Epiphany A, Matthew 5:38-48, Uncategorized
[Listen to Audio] “Choosing to get pregnant in a war is the closest experience I’ve had to the experience of getting baptized.” In her wartime pregnancy, Sara Miles began a journey into suffering and love whose redemptive meaning cracked open in her Baptism....
by jakeowensby | Feb 4, 2017 | 5 Epiphany, Matthew 5:13-20, Uncategorized
[Listen to Audio] Some friends had just treated Joy and me to dinner in an upscale restaurant in a large urban setting. On the way to the parking deck, I glimpsed a man holding a toddler in one arm and a bit of cardboard with handwriting on it in his free hand. The...
