Putting Down the Highlighter

Conversations in the Barn · Aug 20, 2026 · 15m

I used to carry a leather-bound Bible with my name in gold letters, color-coded, underlined, worn soft at the edges from years of use. I loved what it said about me.

In this episode, a sermon on Colossians 2 sends me back through my own story: a leadership class in Lexington, a habit I'm not proud of, and a 300-year-old sermon by John Wesley that finally named something in me I didn't have words for. It's a conversation about the difference between a spiritual discipline and a performance, and about what happens when a good thing quietly becomes a measuring stick.

I don't land on a tidy…