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The Insomnia Posts

Woke up at 4am again, and thought that maybe I should start writing insomnia posts. I found this just now on youtube. I don’t even have words to describe it. It’s so randomly funny. Think about this poor little kid and the tongue lashing he gets from all these St. Bernards. It’s like walking through [...]

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Living Imagination

Braylen has been in the habit of building things out of construction paper, and tonight she wanted to build a car for her princesses. So we spent about 45 minutes building a 3d race car. Drawing, cutting, taping, pasting, folding, and on and on. The more it started to look like a real car, she [...]

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My Theology

The bottom line is this: If someone were to cross examine me on my theology, I’d have some answers that I was really passionate about. But there would be a lot of places where I’d have to shrug my shoulders and confess, “I’m still working that out.” The older I get the less I’m certain [...]

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bless

Earlier this week I came across some old Dwight Pryor cassette tapes. Dwight passed away last year but was a legendary teacher of the Hebraic roots of Christianity. As I held the seemingly ancient artifacts in my hand, it occurred to me that there was a cassette player in my 91′ accord. Someone had given [...]

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Martin Luther King Jr. // A Transforming Power

“This is a spiritual movement, and we intend to keep these things in the forefront. We know that violence will defeat our purpose. We know that in our struggle in America and in our specific struggle here in Montgomery, violence will not only be impractical but immoral. We are outnumbered; we do not have access [...]

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When Music Helps You Live Beyond Yourself

As Aaron describes it, the idea for a new liturgy was birthed at the end of a really bad day. It grew out of the need to be pastored in the midst of a dark moment. And it has done just that in our home. Here’s what I mean. Lately, things have been very hard [...]

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Abraham Joshua Heschel // Redemption

“The meaning of redemption is to reveal the holy that is concealed, to disclose the divine that is suppressed. Every person is called upon to be a redeemer, and redemption takes place every moment, every day.” God in Search of Man

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Karl Barth // A New Start

“In starting out anew, the church has made a choice. It has forbidden in advance any homesickness for what it is leaving behind. It welcomes and already loves what is lying before it. It is still here; but no longer here; not there yet, but already there. It has a long journey before it, as [...]

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Construction Paper + Imagination

Lately when there’s something Braylen wants or thinks we need that we don’t have, she builds it out of construction paper. A Christmas stocking for Clara. An Advent wreath for the back door. A star for the top of the tree. A Christmas angel for our bedroom door. Mermaid tails for her toy princesses. A [...]

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We Remember

Last week I was working on a piece of writing about suffering well. The piece was nearly finished, but I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to end it. Endings are the hardest for me, and that seems to be true pretty much across the board; sermons, writing, relationships, etc. I was [...]

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