Ezra and Nehemiah… rewriting history
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…
God-Words
my very own cohort… #reverb10
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…
Who is God?
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…
cut and paste liturgy of JOY!
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…
pause button
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…
Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 3
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…
Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 2
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”…
Postmodern Church and the Farmlands of Iowa… Part 1
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…