Train Wreck Television
Yesterday I had a free day and had the chance to explore OnDemand television. And its funny what a little downtime and curiosity will do. OnDemand allows the viewer to pick the television show and watch it. For some reason I chose to watch Celebrity Rehab and Basketball Wives. It’s reality television at its finest and ugliest. I like to …
Your Favorite Holiday Memories
So the post I wrote on Friday somehow posted with the comments closed. So I wanted to ask. What are you favorite holiday memories, past or present? Do share.
A New Creed
I was in conversation recently with a group of people creating a network. The focus was on radical inclusivity and the practice of love in hard places. And someone said, “We don’t have a creed.” My first thought was that I liked that idea. Creeds have a ways of becoming much more than they were originally intended for, largely because …
The Value Of Friends
This is a post about friendship. Some of you may know that a couple of weeks I ago I began looking for work. The long term funding for Thrive ended this summer and I’ve been wrestling with what that means. I’ve loved every second of ministry and the freedom that it has afforded me to work directly with people. Yet …
In Defense Of Women
Some of you might think this is a rant. I just don’t get why men are so afraid of women in ministry. I grew up in a fairly traditional evangelical church. Women were never allowed to preach, although they were allowed to give testimonies or share stories, which now seems like a strange dichotomy. But just below the surface women …
Thank You
If you read this blog, contribute to the dialog or just lurk in the background, I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for being part of my life.
Poverty Is A Perception
Poverty is often not what we think it is. It’s not just about money. Over the course of my life I have had the remarkable opportunity to meet a range of people across a spectrum of wealth. This is an observation about those experiences. I have a friend who has been homeless for fourteen years. She chooses to be homeless …
A Connection To Father
Scot McKnight shares a story on his blog that I have seen countless times in ministry. He says, One time a student came to my office and rather doggedly and aggressively said, “I don’t believe in God.” I knew the student a bit and I knew the student’s family, and I knew enough about the situation to say something that …
Hard Wired For Connection
What if philosophers got it wrong? What if the basic notion that we are hard-wired for narcissism and self-interest is not as true our our forefathers adamantly ascribed? I’m deep into The Empathic Civilization, a profound work of human understanding. Jeremy Rifkin suggests that science is now calling into question just about all of our pre-existing notions of human enlightenment …
Love The Way You Lie/Needing To Feel
In the simplest of terms. We’re trying to make sense of what it means to be human. I have a friend who continually hurts himself. He’s entirely self-destructive in his attempts to make relationships work. And no matter how much those around him try and love him it just doesn’t seem to make a difference. When he’s sober he’s a …
