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Downsizing/Uprising We met a couple from Botswana while we lived in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. That’s just interesting, isn’t it? But what I’m going to share is how they moved from a two‑bedroom apartment to one of the suites in our building called Niche Living. The typical suite there is 183 square feet. If a normal two‑bedroom apartment runs 850+ square feet, you can imagine the shift they had to make. Beckie and I showed up with clothes. These folks showed up with decisions to make. How do...

These last few days of blog posts have been an attempt to understand the strength and demands of being intimate. I remember reading an author who challenged the idea of group intimacy. It made sense to me. He said, I can be personal with a number of people, I can be close with a few people but I am intimate with only one person. That makes sense, right? So, what I’ve been exploring is the courage involved in the creation of relationships with others. In the process, we may find someone with...

Some time back a video version of the Bible was produced called The Visual Bible. Each Gospel was presented verbatim, word for word, with the verse numbers quietly ticking in the corner of the screen. When the Gospel of Matthew came out, it received a harsh criticism — and it didn’t come from non‑believers. It came from Christians. They complained that Jesus “smiled too much.” What does that say about us? One thing it suggests is that many Christians don’t like Jesus to be too warm or too...