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(Continued from yesterday.) “It was so melancholy.” Nehemiah said. “As a little one I couldn’t handle the pain in her voice. I walked away. “When I got older, she started to teach it to me. It’s what you call Psalm 137. And I understood why she waited. The end of it talks about Edom and […]

Rich Dixon is constantly learning. Last time I asked a question. “Now, what?” Now that we knew about the horrors of modern-day slavery and child sex trafficking, now that we’d seen the pictures and heard the stories, what would we do about it? British anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce haunted me: You may choose to turn […]

Thanks for asking me to tell you about Nehemiah. This isn’t where I was going to start. I had a great essay prepared about Nehemiah’s planning process. I wanted to talk about his leadership. But something wasn’t quite right about it. So I was sitting in my office talking with Nehemiah. I’ve been doing that […]

You want to do something great. We all want to do great things. We all want to change the world. We all want to do something that matters, to be someone who matters. I do. You do, too. We don’t have to be in charge, we tell ourselves. In fact, we’re not sure we could […]

God. We would love to have the world be overcome. Not in some power-grabbing way. But this weekend, in our community, in our hospital, in our world, there is so much sadness and anger and grief. We would love to see the rivers clap their hands and the mountains sing together for joy, to give […]