There is an interesting article on how various people find themselves studying religion in the NY Times today. In the article, they talk about how attaching religious conversation and shared language to a tradition helps create a place to build community and that it is keeping these things connected that is one of the gifts andContinue reading “Connecting Learning to Tradition”
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Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chapter 3)
We are doing a discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book, “A Convergent Model of Renewal.” This week is chapter three, which covers what we can learn from participatory culture. I am posting the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them and use them. Feel free toContinue reading “Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chapter 3)”
A Fantastic, Participatory, Quaker Meeting
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not knowContinue reading “A Fantastic, Participatory, Quaker Meeting”
Snakes on a pole or The Rut That I Love (John 3:13-21)
“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternalContinue reading “Snakes on a pole or The Rut That I Love (John 3:13-21)”
The Green of Renewal
The book cover is in so that means that we’ve very close to printing! Stay tuned. You can also visit the book page for more information.
Reflecting on Grief and Pastoral Care
I am a monthly contributor to the blog Antioch Session. Antioch Session is a collective blog run by Zach Hoag and Scott Emergy and hosts a number of great writers all who are writing as a means to advance what they consider to be “creative Christianity” around three key areas: Liturgical, Missional and the cultural.Continue reading “Reflecting on Grief and Pastoral Care”
Finding Healing After a Suicide
I wrote an article last summer about some of the healing process I have been working on in relation to my step-dad’s suicide. Friends Journal picked up the article, redid a little of it and has published it this month in their issue on mental health. If you’d like to read it, listen to theContinue reading “Finding Healing After a Suicide”
Cornel West – Hope on a Tightrope
“The vocation of the intellectual is to turn easy answers into critical questions and to put those critical questions to people with power.” “The quest for truth, the quest for the good, the quest for the beautiful, all require us to let suffering speak, let victims be visible, and demand that social misery beContinue reading “Cornel West – Hope on a Tightrope”
Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey
“In the long way that we take in, in our growing up, in the vicissitudes of life by which we are led into its meaning and mystery, there are established for us, for each one of us, certain landmarks. They represent discoveries sometimes symbolizing the moment when we became aware of the purpose of ourContinue reading “Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey”
Waking Up To The Gifts
There is another way to think about Zacchaeus’ story and that is it is a call to wake up to the gifts that are before us (see part one here). Jesus helps to restore Zacchaeus to the community of the people of God, yes he humanizes him, and yes, he gives him back his dignityContinue reading “Waking Up To The Gifts”
Gathering in Light 