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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…
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advent 2024: hope
in adventToday is the first Sunday of Advent. In our home, we read the first story of the New Testament in The Book of Belonging. It begins, “We are called Beloved, but we feel forgotten.” I love that the first story in the New Testament enters into the Advent season without being shy about the turmoil…
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cultural translation of the gospel
In seminary, I was part of a program that was a partnership between The Newbigin House of Studies and Western Theological Seminary that focused on urban church planting. During the course of my studies, there was a work that was central to our program: The Ephesian Moment. It’s an essay/chapter in The Cross-Cultural Process in…