For Your Weekend: Life is Hard. Get a Chicken.

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 13:22–30

I spent last weekend on the bathroom floor, soaking my chickens’ feet in warm water and Epsom salts. Chicken Little acquired bumblefoot, a common bacterial infection, but without treatment, it can be fatal. With the location of the inflammation being on the bottom of her feet, my husband was curious: “How did you know she had bumblefoot?” The answer was easy: “I know my chickens.”

My husband knows information about the chickens: the breeds we s...