Dead or Alive… #reverb10
In March of this year, my mom’s whole family traveled to Hawaii together. It’s not the first time we have made the trip and it…
authentic
Remembering in Five #reverb10
In a year full of ordinary days and moments and the little things that we do and quickly forget… here is to taking five minutes…
Taking out the Trash…#reverb10
I have not really followed the prompts for Reverb before – but from what I have caught wind of, they are daily prompts that help…
running low on the compassion reserves
One of the reasons I have been avoiding blogging lately is because I have a lot of things I would love to write about, but…
tea and danish
I’ve blogged before about how church visitation makes my skin crawl. It gets me all weirded out for no good reason at all. It is…
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 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…
Preaching in an Empire…
Today, our conference “Thursday Memo for Preachers” came across my inbox. I’m usually challenged and inspired by Rev. Bill Cotton’s words – and today was…