School started back up this week and with it some routines. After K2 gets on the bus I usually head off for a walk. This week I’ve been catching up with some of the podcasts from The GodComplex Radio. Carol Howard Merritt and Bruce Reyes-Chow are two PCUSA pastors on opposite coasts who have put [...]
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Back to School in More Ways than One
Posted in PCUSA, Theology, faith, tagged Bruce Reyes-Chow, Calvin, Carol Howard Merritt, Garrett Evangelical, GodComplex Radio, PCUSA, Stephen Ray on August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Deep and Wide
Posted in PCUSA, community, faith on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Go read this post. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go. Read. It. Now.
http://www.achurchforstarvingartists.com/2009/07/more-than-1-way-of-being-christian.html
Jan is a great pastor, wonderful writer, and friend and colleague I treasure.
40 Prayers of Hope and Gratitude
Posted in PCUSA, musings on May 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the PCUSA and a colleague from past Montreat events is celebrating 40 tomorrow and offered a challenge to his readers to make a list of 40 things for which you are grateful, gives you hope or are in need of God’s healing. Since it has been a few months since I made [...]
Busting out the Walls
Posted in PCUSA, musings on March 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
image from www.tommynaumann.com
edited 3.24.09
It seems inevitable that when churches run out of space they build something new. I worked with one pastor who ascribed to the notion that the one way to insure a member’s commitment to the church is to build something every few years – even if it wasn’t necessary.
Random Thought 1: Recently, [...]
If I was asked to pray at the inauguration…
Posted in PCUSA, faith, musings, politics on January 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In case anyone is wondering, if I had been asked to pray at the Inauguration I would not have closed with the Lord’s Prayer. I know I’m making a number of assumptions here but I didn’t want any of you (all 3 of you who read this blog!) to lose sleep over this.
Here is why: [...]
Moving beyond the violence
Posted in PCUSA, faith, musings, palestine/israel, politics on January 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I can’t quite wrap my head around the numbers: one third of the dead in Gaza are children. I’m sure the numbers of Israeli children killed over the course of the never ending bloodshed in the Middle East is equally distressing. In the midst of all the horrific news I heard a brief conversation between [...]
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Posted in PCUSA, musings, palestine/israel, tagged advent, Bethlehem, christmas, israel, palestine, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, security fence, separation wall on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was an eery experience to pass through the security fence or separation wall to enter the city of Bethlehem. This picture of the wall speaks volumes – the city of Bethlehem is quite literally walled in. I don’t want to offend those who might view this situation differently, but my heart of late has been [...]
Presbymeme II
Posted in PCUSA, tagged presbymeme on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
edited 8.26.08; 11:06pm
Hmmm, couldn’t I have been tagged for an easier one?
Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the PCUSA started this one and I was tagged by my friend Jan.
Here are the rules:
in about 25 words each, answer the five questions below.
tag five Presbyterian bloggers and send them a note to let them know they were tagged.
be [...]
