the site of prayer for john.   I am John.     I have a mother. just like you.   I have a father. just like you.   I was born. I will die. naturally. when I’m 94.   I have a brother. his name is James.   I have another brother. sort of. his [...]

{I am going to post all the material that we used for the service over the next week and conclude with a post with links to all the separate posts.} Back in January, when I began to think about Lent and the lead up to Easter, a few ideas came to mind that I wanted [...]

I never really learned how to write until college. I mean I could write in high school, but I didn’t really understand how to respond to a topic or a piece of literature. I’m not sure why it clicked in college, maybe those freshmen english classes did work or maybe simply a couple of years [...]

Beauty. Art. Church. All things I have been thinking about for some years. For a long time I thought about them in very separate terms, then slowly the questions began to overlap and I started allowing them to dialogue with each other. Listening to questions about art and applying them to church or worries about [...]

I read a lot of books, some of them are really good, some not so much, some are informative or educational, but then some are just simply ruptures in thinking—this was what Dan Kimball‘s Emerging Worship was for me. It isn’t very new (published in 2004) and it isn’t a very complex or hard read [...]

Here’s a collection of stuff related to vespers service as I know at least one or two of you will be interested in this stuff. For those who missed it, here’s a post introducing everything. Pictures and Video: Here is the media from the service. These pictures give a pretty good idea of how it [...]

Being married to an artist, the question of the relation of art and faith is a on going discussion. It is something that comes up quite often while we explore what it means for us to be Christians living in this world, participating in bringing God’s kingdom. We find ourselves within a church with a [...]

Captures of one those perfect moments that come only rarely and without planning against all attempts. all photos thanks to AmberPerrodin.com

I’m no artist, but when you live with one you end up making it yourself some times. Here is a recent work I did for the ACO’s (Art Center of the Ozarks) annual 5×5 fundraiser. If you aren’t familiar, the ACO passes out these 5″x5″ canvases to local artists and they produce something, which is [...]