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Imagining a different church
I’ve recently been diving into the practices of the early church: learning about its structures, how they organized, their worship practices, and their relation to the world. I’ve been reading up on their writings and tracing their history. How did they form new disciples? What practices were taught? What was central to their identity? and…
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Random nerding updates
I haven’t really written about my nerding explorations as of late. In my last writing I shared about Supabase and how I was hopeful that would work out for Poggin… but it didn’t — at least not right now! Supabase is powerful, but I found the documentation lacking because it referred to its PaaS setup…
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Reflections on Easter. al-Masīḥ qām!
Easter 2024: a mix of lament and redemption. It’s been a difficult year. I barely participated in this Lenten season. Everything was still a mess in my heart and I lacked a community to practice Lent with, and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t have the discipline to uphold a communal practice on my own.…
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The Holy Household: Ephesians 5
In this series: As I start this third post, I hope to be much more succinct that my first two. Ephesians 5 is often used as the central text regarding the marriage in the complementarian home. In this text, husbands are exhorted to love their wives as Christ loved the church. This means even dying…
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Unattached Deconstruction
When I was a pastor of a congregation I used to worry about those who were deconstructing their faith apart from a community. I was concerned because there’s just so much information out there that just isn’t well-vetted. A 30-second google search or a few minutes watching a short from your favorite tiktok theologian does…
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Models and Mimicry
in reflectionsYesterday I was in a discussion with a bunch of other ministry people about vulnerability. I was encouraged by the engagement; it seemed like a very sensitive subject that pastors, who often feel the need to maintain some image of “altogetherness,” find difficulty navigating. I am glad that, at the very least, we were able…
