Maundy Thursday (House) Worship/Prayer Service
A few days ago Emily and I had the idea to invite some friends over to hang out Thursday, tonight, to kick off Emily’s spring break (she rarely stays up past 9pm on a
Prayers, Queries and Advices
Remember You are Dust: Reflections on Lent 2007
The season of Lent began last week on Ash Wednesday, which marks the 40 day period of waiting for Holy Week. Lent is a time of cleaning out our lives, remembering the frailty of life,
The Things We Carry: A Spiritual Reflection on Life With Ghosts
Life with Ghosts Last night Emily and I started to watch “One Punk Under God,” a documentary about Jay Bakker. Jay is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. I’ve been interested in
FAQs: What is Worship? (Pastoral Quaker Perspective)
In reading Thomas Hamm’s absolutely wonderfulQuakers in America I came across a good quote about how virtually all pastoral Friends today would agree on what the Richmond Declaration says about worship, the statement comes
Celtic Treasure: Daily Scriptures and Prayer
“Celtic Treasure: Daily Scriptures and Prayer” by J. Philip Newell is a great book for family devotions. Emily and I got it a year ago and often use it when we have prayer times together.
Three Queries on Communal Spiritual Growth
The other day on my way home I was thinking about my faith and stumbled upon three questions I thought worthy of thinking through aloud with you: 1. How do I love you God? 2.
FAQs of a Theologian: Can you explain to me what prayer means to a christian?
I’ve had for sometime the idea to write posts based on questions I am asked via email or questions that people ask google and somehow land on my site. In fact I’ve been
Queries from the Gathering
Well in short our meeting last night was wonderful, there was a group of about 13 adults, 4 children (and a few lovely mennonite-volunteers) and I think it would be safe to say we all
A Little Time for Spiritual Inventory With Sequoias
Every so often I realize that I’ve been going full speed ahead for too long and need a break, this past week I had one of those realizations. I finally got to the point
Thomas Merton: A Prayer For the Simplicity of Life and Love
This is a prayer from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton that I find to be moving, challenging and intriguing. Take a moment to be drawn in to the Spirit as you read this
Queries on The Lord's Prayer
This Sunday I am leading a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer, basically covering what I’ve been writting about here for the past month or so. In preparing I decided to create a few
NT Wright – Retelling Stories: Alternate Histories and the Lord’s Prayer
Mike Work, writing on his class blog recently, wrote a great short post about Jesus’ way of being a storyteller. He writes, In his [NT Wright] words, Jesus made a regular practice of retelling the