According to the latest numbers from LA County, the combined Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures. One of them was a Tudor-style house at the end of Norwic Place in Altadena. Since 2011, Jill, Lucy, and I had called that house our home. On January 8th, 2025, it burned to the ground.… Read More

At the age of 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.  The doctors told her that she likely had only two years left to live.  It was 2015, and Bowler was working at the time as a professor of Christianity at Duke University.  She had a husband and baby son.  And she… Read More

A small group of us performed an a cappella song at Knox back in 2008. The chorus began with the words, “I’m working on a building.”  And the song ended with this line: “It’s a Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord.”  Over the years of ministry that have followed – all sixteen… Read More