In his new book, The Great Spiritual Migration, Brian McLaren offers an image of opening a can of Coca-Cola, take a sip, and gagging at the taste–it’s gone bad. You open another can in the case. Terrible. Another. Bleh. By the time you get to the fourth or fifth can, it is unlikely you will … Continue reading “Kick the Can”
Take the leap!
We are on a precipice. We may have been standing there for nearly 500 years, or maybe only 100 years, but on a precipice we stand. We do not know what lies beyond in what looks like a deep dark chasm below—it may be a jagged cliff with a solid rock floor, or it may be … Continue reading “Take the leap!”
Connectional Living
In the Presbyterian Church we wrap our vision around three ideas discerned over hundreds and thousands of years of the Christian Church: Confessional, Constitutional, and Connectional. We are confessional because we confess our faith and are guided by historical confessions written over thousands of years in response to particular situations and contexts. We are constitutional because we … Continue reading “Connectional Living”
God is Love – the Nature of Being
If you don’t subscribe to the daily meditations of Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico, I encourage you to do so. His depth and insights are both challenging and encouraging at the same time—I like that kinda thing. Most of his meditations are drawn … Continue reading “God is Love – the Nature of Being”
VLOG-Season 1, Episode 7: Play Together, Stay Together!
A community or family that plays together, stays together! I could go on and on about a “theology of play,” but I’d rather just show you. Some of the amazing talents at University Presbyterian Church in Tempe, AZ. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel, or subscribe to this blog in the column to … Continue reading “VLOG-Season 1, Episode 7: Play Together, Stay Together!”