Chris Easley

Have you ever been sitting in a church service, looked down at the bulletin to see the morning’s scripture reading, and internally gasped, “Oh no, not that passage?”   Whether it is a dense theological directive on submission, the daunting call of the Great Commission, or Jesus’ uncompromising standard for radical forgiveness, we all have […]

We have a habit of building beautiful, sacred structures and then assuming they will take care of themselves. In our excitement to build the “new, shiny thing,” we frequently forget the quiet, unglamorous work of taking care of what God has already entrusted to us. We build sanctuaries for worship, but we leave the deferred

Not long ago, Chris and his wife Katie—a hospice nurse practitioner—were watching an intense emergency room drama called The Pitt. In one scene, the doctors run a series of lab tests on a critical patient and one of them calls out the results: a potassium level of 12.2. Katie immediately gasped in horror. Chris, completely

If you grew up in church, you’ve likely heard about the noble woman of Proverbs 31. She is a staple of Mother’s Day sermons and home-decor plaques, usually praised for her domestic devotion and tireless care for her family. But if we look closer at the text, we find a description that sounds less like

When Chris was in the fourth grade, he traveled to Texas for a cousin’s wedding and experienced a minor ecclesiastical crisis. Having grown up in an Anglican tradition, Chris was used to robes, incense, and liturgy, and he was deeply disturbed to find the Baptist pastor at his cousin’s church wearing a simple three-piece suit.

Note: We had a one-time recording snafu for this episode, so the audio quality is not what we’d like to share. It’s back to normal in future episodes!   When Chris was seven years old, his uncles John and Dan noticed something: he was a wiggly kid. He was always beating out rhythms on tables

Is your “to-do” list gnawing at your soul?   We all have a “Get-To / Have-To” mix at work. Even in a dream job, there’s a percentage of our day—whether it’s 10% or 90%—filled with tasks that feel tedious, repetitive, or even unfair. When we feel forced into work that drains our energy, the result

When we’re in the middle of a painful stretch in our lives, it can be easy to turn inward, focusing on our own suffering while ignoring others. Or we can run away from the pain instead of facing it. But Jesus shows us a different way. In Luke’s account of his last night with his