My Litany for Earth Day has been published on Unbound! There’s some other good worship stuff as well!
My Litany for Earth Day has been published on Unbound! There’s some other good worship stuff as well!
I hear incredible things about the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, and what has always amazed me is how people organized to fight injustice and inequality. They shared a communal vision of a different world. They worked together to change our world. Many are not named in history books, but their work is seen [...]
Rev. Landon Whitsitt wrote an article entitled “Dear Young(ish) Mainline Pastor Type People: Please Plant a Church.” Here is my disclaimer for this post: I am not writing this reply to fight Rev. Whitsitt’s ideas but to add some thoughts into this conversation. First, I do not disagree with what I believe is Rev. Whitsitt’s main [...]
Head over to Bruce Reyes-Chow’s blog to see my guest blog on young adults and worship. After getting published in Unbound and now having a guest blogger appearance, I’m thinking of calling myself “a writer.”
After reading my last post about reclaiming foolishness in a long-term vision in the church, my friend “Kelly” who is a spiritual-but-not-religious young adult asked the question: If you can minister anywhere at anytime, why bother with the ordination process? First, a clarification on what ordination is in the Presbyterian tradition. “Ordination is an action [...]
I found myself asking this question during a dinner on Monday night with friends. They were asking me what I thought about Tim Tebow’s unique way of praying. I had no idea who Tim Tebow was let along that he was developing some new form of prayer. We happened to be in a restaurant with [...]
Recently I was sitting in a coffee shop chatting with a dude. When it came out that I am a student at a seminary (a graduate school dedicated to the training of Christian pastors, spiritual leader, theological thinkers, and the occasional philosopher) he told me about his own experience of growing up only on occasion [...]
I am allergic to bee stings, but recently I realized that I cannot live my life in fear of bees. What would life be like if I never went outside during bee season? If I need to fight the fear of bees in order to live, really live, life then I will fight the bees. [...]