Tag: church
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preface / faith worth passing on
In the past year (2024) I’ve slowly been writing some reflection on life and faith but I’ve kept it in a side document. Now that it’s the end of the year, I’m realizing that this endeavor will take longer to write than I thought so I’m gonna slowly release what I have so far as…
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reflections on one year: on the other side of fear (a letter to myself)
In this series In my final months in the PCA, I had a candid conversation with another member of the presbytery who understood and sympathized with why I was leaving. He said, “We’re sad to see you go. You are one of the good ones and they’re lucky to have you. I’d consider leaving too…
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The AI Powered ImPastor
I was recently in a room with other pastors taking a look at some new AI tools designed to help day-to-day work. We were trying out a few AI tools with a similar feature set: essentially the tools would take a sermon manuscript (or produce a transcript from an audio recording), and from that source…
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Revisiting 1 Timothy 2
In this series: In the previous post in this series I laid out some hermeneutical basics regarding scripture. If you haven’t read that, go there first because if we do not start from an agreeable hermeneutic (method of interpretation), we won’t get very far. For this post, I want to start with 1 Timothy 2.…
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Women and the church: an introduction
In this series: I’ve been thinking about writing a series of posts about why I came to reject the complementarian position on women in the church and embrace what aligns more closely with the egalitarian view. This post will just be an introduction and I’ll see where I go from here. A brief summary If…
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Hurry outside ourselves
“How have you been doing?” –“That’s a difficult question to answer” –“I’ve been as good as I can be with all that’s happened.” –“I don’t know how to answer that question right now.” For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to tune into my soul and how I’ve been working through the loss of…