April 2011
1 post
last week's sermon--Ecclesiastes 1-2 →
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say that Death is not okay. Actually, it’s kind of pointless Like stories we’ve heard of high kids who commit suicide because they were bullied for being gay …
July 2010
1 post
last week's sermon--Luke 11:1-13 →
Once upon a time a young man went on a retreat. As a kid he’d been a bully, but he gave that up quickly because his priest had told him it was wrong. On the retreat however he remembered that he…
May 2010
6 posts
sunday's sermon--Acts 2 →
Please forgive the formatting—I am too tired to fix it. Happy Pentecost! Two baptisms on Saturday/tonight, a passel of confirmations this morning—God is good! All the time! All the time, God is…
theology in the movies →
on permission giving →
come on, paint me white again →
book thoughts →
I suspect I will not make it to my goal of reading 50 books in 2010. However, I’ve read several recently: 3 and 4 The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson …
last Sunday's sermon--John 10:22-30 →
Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen indeed! Alleluia! So what? I mean, for us now, more than 2000 years later, if we’re really honest with ourselves, a lot of the time it’s just a story. A…
April 2010
2 posts
fashion icons
Ellen DeGeneres
Annie Lennox
Marlena Deitrich
Dr Who #10
Philip Treacy
Stevie Nicks
last Sunday's sermon--John 21:1-19 →
Scripture is a little odd. It’s got these great, pretty bits like “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” and “Consider the lilies of the field, they neither toil nor spin…” But just as often…
March 2010
3 posts
WatchTaylor Mali
fun prayer/art project →
February 2010
6 posts
bible study resource →
who/what is God →
god on the small screen →
One of the most popular sitcoms on television is Two and a Half Men. It’s a show about two brothers and one’s son who live together in a fabulous house, make poor life choices, and hijinks ensue. My…
heresy is necessary →
[We] must move from the idea that there is an Orthodox Christian stance and a heretical positioning that transgresses it, to the point in which we see Orthodoxy itself as heretical…[T]here is no…
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“By ministering to college students, we proclaim truth in the middle of the...”
– Benson Hines, Reaching the Campus Tribes, 67-68
December 2009
4 posts
this blog in wordle →
Check it out!
“The medieval church saved the arts, but today the arts will save the church.”
– Dayvid Graybill, founder of Another Way, a Denver-based “unchurch” that incorporates arts and spirituality [Mennonite Church USA News Service]
notes from the Edge--Interchange article →
I think I’m beginning to get it. This thing we call “campus ministry” is amorphous, protean, perplexing, ephemeral, and many other five-dollar words. But at the end of my first quarter as a…
logos →
…[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a species of deadly light as Decuman did; and we call those of the second…
November 2009
11 posts
today's sermon--Luke 21:25-36 →
I am afraid of the dark. There, I said it. I’ve been afraid of the dark since before I can remember, and I’ve never really shaken it. I used to panic when fumbling for a light switch, or run up a…
clarifying thought from the blogosphere →
MadPriest’s “Thought of the Day”: I have read, or have listened to, words from the Bible almost everyday of my life and I believe I can now say, without any doubt, that there are two great evils…
i could deal with this if it weren't for that →
Driving back from the grocery store yesterday, I thought to myself how wonderful being a mom is. I get a primal satisfaction from planning Abby’s lunches and playing games with her. I thought…
eucharistic prayer
What kind of bread and wine?
Posted in what we’re up to, on October 27th, 2009 by Fi
P. wrote this for our time together in the park on the 18th
“Like our personal bibles, breaking bread and wine is also multi-faceted .
It will have a different resonance for each of us here today.
A different resonance for each of us personally from one week to the next. A different resonance for the...
questions to ask your church/community →
At the Navigate Conference in Florence, KY this week, DG Hollums asked these questions at the end of his talk: Does this expect them to come to us? Is there sending involved? How are relationships…
videos for worship →
wordle →
October 2009
10 posts
group discernment →
discipling college students →
Did you know “disciple” is a verb? Friend and office-mate Chris asked some folk for thoughts on “simple steps for discipling college students.” Keeping them simple as asked, here are my thoughts: …
conference I desperately want to attend →
“We fail miserably if ever we read into a text that we are doing things right.”
– khad young, outlaw preacher
what does a year's worth of trash look like? →
Advent Conspiracy →
September 2009
4 posts
some thoughts about week 1 →
I recently heard that if you’re not exhausted by the end of the first week of classes in the campus ministry game, you’re not doing it right. It’s Wednesday and I’ve been exhausted for at least two…
today I am doing a new thing →
I’ve figured out what’s got me running so scared about campus ministry. I know, I put forth this air of utter competence and joyous energy—how could I possibly have doubts? Well, I do. Don’t you? …
someone else's blog →
In my continuing, in-depth series of posts of other people’s blogs, check out officemate Chris Bean the Nazarene (say it out loud)’s recent post.
excellent article →
Wonderful opinion piece about whitewater and American willful ignorance. Only you can prevent stupidity.
August 2009
7 posts
today's sermon--Song of Songs 2.8-13 →
Grace and peace to you, brothers and sisters, from the mission field of University of Cincinnati. A mission field, I say, because it is ripe, not for the harvest, but for…
book thoughts →
It is fascinating to me just how bad Twilight is. This from a veteran romance novel reader. I’ve read them since I was a pre-teen, sneaking them from the piles in my Grandma’s room and reading 3…