salvagedfaith

Forcing Growth

We have probably 20 volunteer red bud trees growing in the landscaping of our back yard. If we simply let them be, they are in…

I confess… Tonight our confirmation students were asked to state their faith. To imagine that they had been arrested for their faith and had to…

I spend a good chunk of time every week preparing to preach the word of God through liturgy choices, attention to hymns, exegetical work, praying,…

There was a challenge issued TWICE by Mike Slaughter in chapter one of this Renegade Gospel book we are examining during this Lenten season: to…

February 15, 2016 1

This Lent, I have been using a tool called “Growing a Rule of Life.” Each day there is a video and a prompt question to…

There are places in this world that are “thin.” It is a label given to places, in the Celtic understanding, where the barrier between the…

By some accounts, yesterday morning I did exactly the opposite of what Jesus tells us in Matthew. Some of us gathered at a local coffee…

Last year I took four weeks of spiritual renewal leave and wanted to focus on cultivation… in relationships, in my spiritual life, and literally, in…