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The Parable of the Sower as a lens on deconstruction
I was reading through the Gospel of Luke today. I have in mind to just write a bunch of sermons based on the parables of Jesus; some sermons that are not connected to a series and I’d find useful when I’m invited to guest preach at churches. So while it’s not the first parable in…
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Moses and the Rock
Ever since I started working at my current job, I have enjoyed a regular series of questions (at least weekly) from my desk neighbor. These questions, whether they are deeply theological or practical, always invite curiosity. Here’s my first attempt in translating one into a post. Maybe I’ll write about them more often in the…
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reading Reading Genesis
In passing office catchup/conversation I learned that some coworkers and members from a local church were going to read Reading Genesis, by Marylinne Robinson. It’s a book I’ve had on the shelf for a while but never got to because there were always other things in my reading queue. But after learning that they were…
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book: the girls who went away
I recently finished reading The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler. I was put onto it through a passing anecdote in a podcast; I can’t remember which podcast and I can’t even search it because I don’t think it was the main topic of the podcast episode, but I was intrigued so I pick…
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feeding the hype machine
In a few weeks, I’m going to be leading worship songs at a regional conference for a para-church college ministry with a music team. It’s not a gig I was expecting, especially since I’m double the age of many of the attendees that will be attending. This team and I grew up in a different…
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advent 2024: peace and joy
This will be two advent reflections in one as all my intentions last week to write for the week of peace have been delayed to now. peace I started the week of peace a bit of confusion, trying to distinguish it from the previous week of hope. I remember asking myself on Monday morning, How…