Those Annoying, Pesky Identity Gnats
I’ve started this post a dozen times in the last month and cannot figure out how to structure it. I can’t make it say what I want it to say. I tried approaching it from “I hate it when…
Darkness … and light
Twenty seven dead. Twenty of them children. There are no words. And publishing thoughts still in process is a risky thing, but it seems important to try. Children. Not a teen angry at classmates – although that is equally…
The Church of the Floating Jesus
Yesterday I attended a funeral – one of those sudden and unexpected deaths that don’t make sense this side of heaven. A vibrant, full of life, wife and mother collapses without warning and is gone. Three college/early career age children…
I’m so grateful – I can’t give enough
About 25 years, my son Andrew had a best friend named Brett. Brett’s mom (Abby) was blind. A bump on the head as she went down a water slide a few months after she was married, coupled with complications from…
Sabbath and the fear of “not enough”
For the second time in recent months, I’ve taken some weeks off from blogging. In July I posted about what I was learning in busy seasons. I was having to let some things go. Blogging was one of them. …
Kingdom Journeys
Those who know me or who follow this blog know that I’ve been on a journey. Specifically, over the last ten years, the spiritual journey has included walking through the painful end of my marriage and discovering, in the midst…
Here I Am To Worship …
In the last month or so I’ve attended church at an orphanage in India, at my home church in Georgia, at a megachurch through live streaming and at a bi-lingual Episcopal church in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The services ranged…
What 6th Graders Taught Me About September 11 – and taking Jesus seriously
They taught me to wrestle with the hard sayings of Jesus. September 11 will roll around again in a couple of days. In 2001, the year of the attacks, I was teaching 6th grade Sunday School. It was part of…
Why I Love Ministry to Parents
[UPDATE 9/2020 – I’m still here, Parent Ministry has grown, and I still love my job.] There’s been a common thread in a lot of what I’ve done over the last 15 years. When I led children’s ministries at church,…
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