As America celebrates 250 years, I find myself reflecting on another birthday I remember—the Bicentennial of 1976. What has changed over the last fifty years? More importantly, what kind of neighbors, leaders, and citizens will we choose to become? A PBreflects reflection on hope, unity, and America’s next chapter.
Three college students climbed into my Uber and spent ten minutes talking about someone named Mika. By the end of the ride, I was convinced this poor young man needed a friend—until I discovered Mika wasn’t a person at all. In this humorous Uber Chronicles story, a case of mistaken assumptions becomes a reminder that we rarely have the whole story, whether about people, our circumstances, or life itself.
“The greatest things I ever built were never careers, accomplishments, or possessions. They were lives.” Don’t measure my fatherhoodby the titles I’ve held,the successes I’ve celebrated,the mistakes I’ve made,or the struggles I’ve endured. Measure it insteadby the lives that walk beyond me – the children and grandchildrenwho carry pieces of my heartinto a future I…
What does it really take to be a dad?
According to The Official Dad Training Manual, it involves fixing Wi-Fi, mastering the grill, assembling furniture without instructions, sending confusing text messages, and somehow becoming the family expert on everything. But beneath the humor lies a deeper truth: fatherhood isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about showing up, loving well, and carrying responsibilities that often go unseen. This Father’s Day, we celebrate the ordinary men who make an extraordinary difference every day.
As graduation season arrives, college students begin asking bigger questions about the future, purpose, and what comes next. A series of Uber conversations reminded me that none of us have life completely figured out. Yet amid uncertainty, there is hope, wisdom, and faith for taking the next step forward.
What if the question isn’t, “Why don’t they want help?” What if the better question is, “What are we not seeing?” This article invites readers to move beyond assumptions about homelessness, addiction, and mental health and discover the people, pain, resilience, and hope that often go unnoticed.
Crisis does not wait for business hours.
Yet many of the systems designed to help people are only accessible Monday through Friday, from 8 to 5 – closed on weekends, evenings, and holidays. But pain, loneliness, addiction, homelessness, mental health struggles, and even moments of breakthrough happen at every hour of the day and night.
What happens when someone is finally ready to ask for help… but the door is closed?
If we truly believe in a continuum of care, then perhaps it is time to rethink whether support should only exist during traditional schedules – because human struggle has never followed a clock.
A reflection on motherhood, grief, gratitude, healing, and the many ways love shapes our lives. Mother’s Day carries with it a thousand different emotions. For some, it is joy, celebration, gratitude, and love. For others, it brings grief, disappointment, longing, or silence. It reminds us of the mothers who nurtured us well, the women who…
What if the problem isn’t that the world is rejecting faith…
but that it no longer recognizes what it’s seeing?
Jesus said we are the light of the world – but somewhere along the way, we traded light for noise, hope for arguments, and presence for positioning. Faith was never meant to be proven through louder voices or sharper debates. It was meant to be seen.
Maybe the call was never to win people over with words…
but to live in such a way that they begin asking why.
Some weekends you rest…and some weekends you accidentally become a front-row witness to humanity at its most unfiltered.
Between questions about New Year’s resolutions in April, relationship definitions that felt like they needed a flowchart, and heartfelt moments hidden behind humor and late-night conversations… I realized something:
People are trying to figure life out – out loud.
And sometimes the backseat of an Uber becomes the place where the truth slips out… somewhere between the pregame, the postgame, and everything in between.
