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The Church Isn’t a Service Industry
I didn’t get around to writing for over two months, but it’s not for lack of activity. It’s been busy. Our church has been busy trying to get back on track while covid and leadership stress/burnout have been throwing a barrage of banana peels and turtle shells at us. And as I’ve been talking and…
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A Slow Deconstruction
I’m in the midst of a slow deconstruction and I’m trying to work out how to potentially transition well in both mind and heart. The tricky thing about being an ordained minister is that you take vows. I’ve served in churches before where I’ve disagreed with some aspect of the church’s beliefs or practices and…
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The Love of Reading
Multiple times a week, a thought goes through my head that I’ve never really written down before: “I love that my daughters read.” If you went through my photos, sprinkled throughout you’ll find random photos I take of my kids, fully absorbed in a book. Without exception, every one of those photos was taken by…
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Arizona Trip 2022
Just a photo dump from our trip. I really liked this trip. Maybe it was the timing. I didn’t think I needed it as much as I did. One of the first things we did was hike Camelback. It was quite a hike. Lots of scrambling needed. Most of my pictures are in the back…
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A Better Way To Be Here
It’s been about a week since I’ve been back from a one-week vacation in Arizona. I’ll post about that trip later… or at least a photo dump or something. It was so wonderful to be away. I don’t think I realized how much I needed to be away until I was finally away. While in…
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Are You a Magician?
A few weeks ago I started the M’Cheyne Bible Reading plan after learning about it in a class lecture and being inspired by our class discussion about spiritual disciplines to go ahead with it.[1] It’s four chapters a day, and if you stick with it, you end up reading through the OT once, the NT…
