Tag: reflections

  • Summer of Renewal

    Summer of Renewal

    I recently saw a friend who had been present throughout the chaos of the past year. He wasn’t present for every step of the unfolding, but because he only saw and sees me intermittently, he was able to say that I looked genuinely happier than I’ve had in the past year. That’s a good sign…

  • Reflections on Easter. al-Masīḥ qām!

    Reflections on Easter. al-Masīḥ qām!

    Easter 2024: a mix of lament and redemption. It’s been a difficult year. I barely participated in this Lenten season. Everything was still a mess in my heart and I lacked a community to practice Lent with, and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t have the discipline to uphold a communal practice on my own.…

  • Models and Mimicry

    Models and Mimicry

    Yesterday I was in a discussion with a bunch of other ministry people about vulnerability. I was encouraged by the engagement; it seemed like a very sensitive subject that pastors, who often feel the need to maintain some image of “altogetherness,” find difficulty navigating. I am glad that, at the very least, we were able…

  • Reflections on youth and age by Jennifer Knapp

    Reflections on youth and age by Jennifer Knapp

    I’m not exactly sure how or why but I recently started reconnecting with Jennifer Knapp, a music artist that I enjoyed listening to in my younger days. Maybe its because I found her expressions of faith and longing very relatable or because she has a way of describing the beautiful complexity of life that appeals…

  • Endurance with love

    Endurance with love

    I was reading through the latter chapters of the Gospel of Matthew today as part of the M’Cheyne plan. Oftentimes I breeze through these sections because the passages are so familiar, but today something caught my interest. In Matthew 24, Jesus is responding to his disciples’ question and concern: “What will the sign be of…

  • Faith foundations

    Faith foundations

    Earlier this week I was reading the Sermon on the Mount as part of the M’Cheyne plan. There’s a passage in the Sermon on the Mount that has always haunted me, and it again gave me pause. In Matthew 7:21-21, it says: 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of…