Author: Jae Newman

I know the David story—the darkness, the redemptive element—is seemingly the text we might focus on. It’s not where I’m focusing us this week. Instead, I’m arrested by this metaphor: “The Bread of Life.” Metaphors are a big deal. Although people abuse language in all kinds of ways, it is never to their benefit. As…

When my daughter was two years old she was, like many other children, scared of the dark. To help her sleep, I bought a giant camping flashlight which she could project up into a corner of the room. It was a great relief to her and a financial problem for me. Those batteries were expensive.…