Author: andrew@andrewpurdum.com

You know the math. You are not doing it on paper. You are doing it on the ceiling. Car payment on the ninth. The card that has the interest rate you don’t say out loud. The dentist thing you have been putting off since spring, which is not going to cost less in the fall.…

It ended because someone had to leave for work. Not resolved. Ended. One of you said the last thing, and then the door, and now it is Tuesday afternoon and you are both being extremely polite about the dishwasher. You have been rehearsing. Everyone does. You have a version where you explain it properly and…

There is a stretch in 1 Kings that does not go the way you expect a story about a prophet to go. Elijah has just had the biggest day of his career. Mount Carmel, the contest, fire from heaven, the whole nation watching. By any measure he has won. Then Jezebel sends word that she…