Tag: church
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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…
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My Story at King’s Cross Church
Blessed are you when the shock subsides,when vaguely, you see a line appearthat divides before and after. You didn’t draw it,and you can barely even make it out.But as surely as minutes add up to hours and days,here you are,forced into a story you never would have written. Blessed are you in the tender placeof…
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dead gods and the living god
There’s a chapter from a book by Justo Gonzalez that I often come back to called, “Let the Dead Gods Bury Their Dead.” Here’s an excerpt from one of the early paragraphs: Some gods are better dead than alive. Humankind did not lose a great deal when Huitzilopochtli and his cohorts lost their power to…
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pastor and congregation
I sit here writing this reflection with about 5 weeks before my final day at the church, and I don’t know if I’ll ever put this out into the public. But in this moment, I’m pondering, What is the pastor’s relationship to the congregation? And in these final months, I’m ever aware that my time…