Tag: church
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Processing Rob’s Departure
To King’s Cross Church, Grace, mercy (hesed), and peace. How are we supposed to process the events of the past several months? We all respond differently in stressful situations like this. Some of us are uneasy with conflict and strong emotions. Others respond with confident indifference, trying not to feel anything by busying ourselves with…
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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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Revisiting Faith, Gender, and Identity
I’ve been meaning to write about faith, gender, and identity for a while… or at the very least put my current thoughts in process here like a time capsule so I can trace my progression in the future. I’ve definitely come to some conclusions that I would not have been able to articulate a few…
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why i'm still at my church
parts of this post i started last summer after the '08 class graduated and i saw a lot of friends come back to NY after 4 years in college, abandon their home churches and begin the search for a new church that was a “better fit” for them. they were frustrated by the “lack of…
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on “unselfishness”
i’m trying to post more frequently and shorter (i’ll try). the idea for this post came up in a conversation i had today w/ a friend. often when i chat with people, i listen “in between the lines” of what they say and i hear, though rarely explicitly said, this weird notion that having pain…