Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Rule 66 never began as a campaign or a slogan. It began with my mother. Her lessons came from an ordinary kitchen that always smelled of percolated coffee that she ground with a bright red hand cranked grinder. That space became my first classroom. I learned more about life … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Love came quietly that night without fanfare or bright lights. Just the steady rhythm of animals breathing, the scrape of straw, and a cry that split the silence of the world. God entered the story, not through a throne or a trumpet, but through a manger that smelled of … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Sharing your story of faith rarely feels grand while you are doing it. Most of the time it sounds like refilled coffee and a quiet voice, a table at dusk, the soft clink of a spoon, a truth that finally finds words. I have learned on Route 66 that … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Grace on the move isn’t a sprint toward recovery. It’s the quiet drive home after the storm, when the sky is still heavy, but the light begins to show through. This reflection is part two of the three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; stories about what it means … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Faith in motion begins in the quiet before dawn when the world feels half asleep and the road waits without answers. This reflection is part one of a three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; three stories about what it means to live “God handed me the keys again … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Pie for Strangers is a Route 66 Thanksgiving story about kindness, gratitude, and sharing dessert when thanksgiving dinner on the road brought forty travelers together in a Flagstaff café. The smell of turkey and coffee met us at the door when Mary and I stepped into a small café … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast The Mission Statement was born, like most good things, over coffee. I was halfway through a lukewarm refill when a businessman at the next stool looked up from his laptop and asked what I did for a living. I told him I was a chaplain, … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Staying true at the bottom sounds like a strange kind of goal in a world that tells us to keep climbing. Yet lately, I’ve realized that the higher some people rise, the harder it is to hear the still, small voice that speaks through everyday … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Facing the storm is not our first instinct. Most of us try to steer around the dark sky and wait it out from a safer distance. Out on the plains there is a different lesson. Cows run with the storm and stay in the rain … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Upright mobile and blessed has become my everyday answer when someone asks how I am doing. It comes out so naturally that I barely think about it, but it is more than a catchphrase. It is muscle memory. Every word in that little line carries … Read more