Dear Subscribers to “In the Meantime…”, I wanted to write a short note to say several things: First and foremost, thank you. Thank you for reading, for subscribing, for following the journey I’ve been on with this blog and for all your comments and various words of encouragement. You make it worth writing every day. Second, when I put a video in my post, I also place a link under the video to the actual page where the video can be found on the website as I realize the posted videos cannot always be viewed depending on the browsers and email provider in use. But here’s the thing: although I almost never forgot to...

First and foremost, thanks to all those who have been sending notes and posting comments about our upcoming move. You’ve all be incredibly gracious and supportive, and it’s been cool to connect in this way with folks I’ve known since college and others that I don’t know at all except for our shared time on the internet. 🙂 I appreciate it greatly. Second, I’ve decided to take a sabbatical from the blog. That’s not been an easy decision, as I’m just plain embarrassed by how much I’ve come to love this way of interacting with you all and thinking about the faith. The daily devotions – which started as a Lenten discipline...

I started this blog six months ago as something of an experiment to see if I (and by extension others) can discover how to write on matters of faith and daily life in a way that would be helpful and even (on a good day!) interesting to everyday Christians. Five years earlier I had led the team that developed WorkingPreacher.org, a site devoted to preaching resources. Since it’s launch it’s been a huge success, garnering well over a quarter million hits a month. But as I always tell folks, Working Preacher is the “low hanging fruit.” Preachers have to preach sermons each and so they know they can use good resources that are readily...