The Long Walk

  • The Side Paths

    Wade asked me a simple question: What happened at Taizé? What happened resisted the usual explanations — the ones that begin with it was beautiful or I needed the rest or it was good to get away. Those things were true. They were also entirely insufficient. I stood there trying to answer and realized, somewhere…

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  • Mo Bed

    Every morning at Taizé, the brothers offer communion. I was there on pilgrimage — a group of Arkansas pastors, all of us carrying years of ministry and, if we’re honest, years of accumulated certainty about how things are supposed to work. Taizé undid that quietly. The chanting. The long silences. The way a few thousand…

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  • What We Carry With Us

    There is a difference between luggage and baggage. Luggage is intentional — what you actually need, chosen deliberately. Baggage is everything else — the extra weight you carry without ever really deciding to. Standing in my bedroom surrounded by piles of clothes, gear, and “just in case” items before a two-week trip to Europe, I…

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  • First, Know That You Are Loved

    I am sitting on the deck in the morning, with a stillness here that feels familiar in a different way than it did before I left. As I sit here, I realize that the feeling I have right now—this quiet sense of appreciation for where I am, for this space, for this moment—feels very similar…

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  • The Long Walk — Issue No. 1

    The Thing About Slow What running taught me about the only pace that actually works I came back to running in my fifties, the way you return to something you always knew mattered but kept setting aside for more urgent things. It was not my first time. I had run before, cycled, moved through seasons…

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