There is something I’ve noticed for a while. I’ve thought about it quite a bit, without a clear resolve. It is a question of information and human relations. We live in a world where people have huge amounts of information at their disposal. With such immediate and constant access that smartphones and always-on-broadband-internet gives us, [...]

I received a message from someone recently… God wanted me to ask you what you are learning. Not what you are learning from books or from other people,and not what you are learning to share with others. But what are you learning from God? No reply needed..just being obedient to ask the question. There is [...]

I wrote a short piece over at Clayfire Curator on the subject of curating worship services around the theme of mystery. It was titled “How to Curate the Unspeakable (in 3 Easy Steps)” and you can read it here. Interestingly, I found a lot of parallel ideas in a post written by Cary Gibson reflecting [...]

Wolhart Pannenberg on preaching’s role in worship, from his Systematic Theology Vol.3 p.335-6 As preaching of the gospel, Christian preaching must always be proclamation of the inbreaking of the future of God and is reign for us that became an event already in Jesus Christ. Insofar as it is this, it shows itself to be [...]

processed faith is… …singing the same CCM songs everyone is singing in any ‘contemporary’ worship service all across America. …not trusting the local leadership to lead a group, so you buy a pre-packaged small group curriculum from a big name trusted leader. …having others wrestle with a passage all week so you can show up, [...]

“I’ve been thinking recently about our temptation to try to become more like God — more holy, more sinless, more perfect. Perhaps the thing we should be working for is to become more human — more fragile, more vulnerable, more unfinished; to be better at being human.” -Cheryl Lawrie

Recently I did a quick search for pray in the Bible. The results I got were rather surprising. I wasn’t trying to do serious research, so I didn’t go to the Greek and Hebrew and only used one translation (NRSV). I did run the search again with the KJV and did get significantly larger results, [...]

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe.

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe. I really like this idea. I think it resonates deeply with what I’ve been trying to do with Vespers. For many years I’ve had this sense that there was a large [...]

Infertility has always been a problem, but it hasn’t been until recently that science and medicine have been able to do anything to counter it. NPR’s Morning Edition had a story of one family’s struggles to get pregnant. I hesitate to talk about this topic, due to the deep emotional troubles that are tied to [...]