Sunday evenings spent on the porch often provide an occasion to unwind from a busy day. A phone call interrupted the quiet.Continue Reading …
Resolution Without Resolve Subverts Loyalty
Christians Don’t Have an Answer to Suffering But . . . : An Interview with Jason Micheli
Christians don’t have an answer to the question of suffering. Christians have a community of care. Continue Reading …
Do the Next Right Thing: King’s Legacy as Metaphor with Adam Clark
Guilt paralyzes. We suffer beneath the weight of what we have done. The mental and emotional real estate guilt takes up in our lives often leaves us handicapping our next decision.Continue Reading …
What Does Socrates Have to do with Preaching? or, Too Nerdy for Jason Micheli
What will that fifty dollar shirt do that the ten dollar shirt won’t? The ten dollar shirt covers you in all the right places. Continue Reading …
What Does It Profit a Pastor to Run for Local Office?
When he learned I was on the City Council, my friend remarked, “I did not take you for Constantinian.” At once I felt I disappointed one of my man-crush’s. I also realized how broad brushed generalizations work.Continue Reading …
Receiving Dante: An Interview with Nathan P. Gilmour of The Christian Humanist Podcast
When asked what book or books have left an impression on me I often refer to a book given as a gift. Jimmy gave me a copy of The Divine Conspiracy in the late 1990’s. To this day the idea of intentional formation looms large in by my own life and ministry. Much of that depended on how I received the text, the book.Continue Reading …
My Women on International Women’s Day
Years ago, when our girls were small, a friend said, “All great men have two girls.” Incidentally he told me he heard it from one of our mutual friends. Naturally all three of us have two girls.Continue Reading …
The Impossibility of Ethics? – A Conversation Over Breakfast
Solomon the Wise King faced the impossibility of ethics. The story is well known. His response to the dilemma came in rooting out the true mother. When the baby’s mother declared, “Give her the living baby but please don’t have him killed,” Solomon knew the true mother would love the child more than another’s mother.Continue Reading …
(My) Black History: Why So Excited?
Nine year olds may be easily excited. Our Pee Wee baseball team won quite a few games. I played nearly every position on the field at that age. I even pitched a game or two. But, I am not sure any excitement I felt that year compared to that of Ms. Criag. I did not understand why.Continue Reading …
The Circles of Faithful Presence: An(other) Interview with David E. Fitch
Practical Theology is theology from below. That is, practical theology is rooted in reflections about God’s activity in the world in real time. Eugene Peterson reminds, “Matter is real. Flesh is good. Without firm rooting in creation, religion is always drifting off into some kind of pious sentimentalism or sophisticated intellectualism.” (The Contemplative Pastor, p.68)Continue Reading …
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