September 28 – Loving Without Conditions

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 28, 2026 · 10m · transcript

Bill builds on his week's theme of giving that expects nothing back, and takes it into territory most people skip past when they quote 1 Corinthians 13 at a wedding. He works the passage as a checklist rather than poetry, patient, kind, keeps no record of wrongs, and admits honestly where he still falls short. He likes to bake cakes, and he still likes being told the cakes are good. Unconditional love, he says, isn't something he's arrived at, it's something he practices toward.

The center of the episode is the crucifixion itself, walked slowly. The soldiers dividing his clothes by casting…