J Walking

Morning again, by God’s mercy, but a hard one. Probably just tired, but also discouraged. I kept wondering why Fox News pulled the two stories they had scheduled, and then last night I figured it out. During my illness, there has been a close group of friends praying for me and for my family. Sunday…

Wow, am I tired. I’ve been doing press interviews all day and I feel battered. It’s awfully hard to convey a whole book in a few minutes–let alone when the book is about your whole life and not just a few paragraphs that have become the center of a political debate happily engaged by both…

I keep wondering why it is that the White House keeps putting up people to respond to me who are not from the White House. Then the realization hits me — there is no one left at the White House who could. Compassionate conservatism is so dead that there is now no one at the White…

As I’ve been doing interviews on my book, I’ve been proposing that Christians “fast” from politics. It has been mischaracterized as a call for Christians not to vote. That’s not what I mean. Christians like me have worked in politics for the last serveral decades with the hope that just the right president, the right…

It is always so much easier to talk about walking with Jesus than it is to actually lean on Jesus. At least that has been my experience. Jesus is easier to love when I don’t need him so much because that way I get to keep him at a sort of arm’s length – near…

Well, I am glad that Jesus loves me unconditionally. For now, I am, according to a Christian writer, a member of the “Axis of Evil.” I don’t have that much time to write right now, but will have more to say in a bit but that is unexpected. And, leaving every sorrowful attempt at humor…

So, the smears are beginning. A call this afternoon from a DC gossip columnist who was called by a Republican finance person alleging I had done something wrong to him five years ago. All I wanted to do was fight back – to defend myself and preserve my “reputation.” But then I made a quick…

A month ago, the “60 Minutes” crew came to our house and took over four full rooms with cameras, lights, monitors, microphones, and people. I talked with Lesley Stahl for almost four straight hours. We talked about virtually everything, including the night I had a massive seizure while driving my car down a winding, twisting…

Jesus and I just took a walk through Central Park. It was a great relief from the small tempest blowing around a book I have written that will be out tomorrow and on “60 Minutes” tonight. Almost no one has seen the book yet – it doesn’t go on sale until tomorrow – save for…

Though it clearly happens all the time, I am surprised by seeing sunrise in New York City. That dark night filled with clouds and loud taxi cabs and trucks that go ‘beep, beep, beep’ when in reverse–it gets lighter bit by bit and then the color appears…pretty much every color of red imaginable. Not being…

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