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Ezra and Nehemiah… rewriting history

Posted on February 9, 2011Leave a comment

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In my local emergent cohort, we have been reading Phyllis Tickle’s Prayer Is a Place: America’s Religious Landscape Observed. As this book has been in the back of my mind, I have been thinking about how we look back and view history. As my carpool buddy Tim put it, we are always rewriting history and…

my very own cohort… #reverb10

Posted on January 11, 2011Leave a comment

Still catching up on the 31 reverb10 prompts from the month of December. Little by little, I will get through them all!!! So tomorrow, we start with our first monthly gathering of 2011. We are looking at Carol Howard Merritt’s “Reframing Hope.” (I wrote some about it yesterday) I can’t wait to continue the conversations…

Who is God?

Posted on January 9, 2011Leave a comment

I realized today how theologically illiterate my congregation is. That may seem like a slam, or a critique, but it is a simple reality. And it is a reality that is not their fault. As we began our discussion of Max Ludado’s Outlive Your Life we focused for a bit on a very simple question: If…

cut and paste liturgy of JOY!

Posted on December 7, 20101 Comment

I am definately a cut and paste liturgical writer. I don’t have the time and energy most days to do the good hard creative work it takes to listen for God speaking and to craft liturgy. And there are other people out there who do it so much better than I do! There are a…

pause button

Posted on September 24, 2010Leave a comment

I know, its been a while since I posted last. I have five posts lined up in the queue waiting to go, but I haven’t had time to work on them. The next installment of the “Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa” is what is holding everything up. One book needs to be read…

Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 3

Posted on September 15, 2010Leave a comment

In this installment, I want to talk about some of the “best practices” that I see coming out of emerging, missional, and postmodern churches. Some of these practices are mentioned in Diana Butler Bass’ book, Christianity for the Rest of Us, but they also come from Kester Brewin’s, Signs of Emergence. A few of the “best…

Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 2

Posted on September 9, 20103 Comments

So, the first thing I want to tackle is some semblance of a definition. What on earth are we talking about when we say “postmodern” and “emergent.” The simple answer is that there isn’t a simple answer. In The Emerging Church, Dan Kimball describes the post modern world as: An emerging and developing worldview and culture pursuing…

Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 1

Posted on September 8, 20102 Comments

In our final year at Vanderbilt Divinity School, we work on the crowning glory of our graduate work: our seminar paper. As I sat down three years ago to write this work, I was very interested in how I might take all that I had learned and take it back home to Iowa. I knew…

The Lord is our Salvation A Lenten Study following the RCL Year B readings. This book looks at salvation from a variety of lenses and opens our understanding of the work of Christ.

Three Gifts, One ChristAn Advent or Epiphany Bible Study focusing on the gifts of the magi and what they tell us about the baby born in the manger.

All Earth Is Waiting: Good News for God’s Creation at Advent is a seasonal biblical study focusing on the call of people of faith to respond to a changing climate.