This summer I published a new book called “Risk: Living by Faith in the Face of Fear.” I thought I would give you a taste of it with one of the chapters from the middle of the book—the one, in fact that inspired the cover art for the book. The […]
This one’s gonna be hard for me to write about. Here is a statement about the Enthusiast Pathway from Gary Thomas’ Sacred Pathways: Enthusiasts enjoy a celebratory form of worship as well as many of the more supernatural forms of faith. People with this spiritual temperament like to let go and […]
Since I have become engrossed in these blogs on Worship Pathways (inspired by Gary Thomas’ book Sacred Pathways and our summer series at The Well), I have neglected the tea side of this blog. I thought maybe it was time to remedy that, and began to wonder: which of my personal teapots […]
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ — that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know. (John Keats) For the Intellectual Worshipper, the truth of God contains great beauty and leads to worship. The more they study Scripture, the deeper they delve into theology, the closer they […]
Was there any place so lovely as my Grandma’s Episcopal church? Its tall, pointed stained glass windows seemed to point to heaven for prayer. I sat with my Grandma in the old wooden pews and read aloud with her the responses and petitions from the Book of Common Prayer. At […]
“I can sit for hours just thinking about the love of God,” she said. I at first assumed she was talking about some kind of theological rumination, puzzling over the paradoxes and dimensions of Scriptural descriptions of God’s love. But no. She meant, literally, that she could become drawn up […]
We live in a noisy world. It is a world that would attempt to distract us with the baubles of material goods and acquisitions, and fill our minds and lives with busy activity. We live our lives with ear buds pouring sound in our ears, phones and computers dinging with […]
Miss Strangelove had grown up in church, and was in fact a pastor’s daughter. She learned her children’s catechism. She prayed before meals. Her parents disciplined her when she was naughty, so she would know the meaning of good and evil. One day at Sunday School, Miss Strangelove’s teacher […]
I have been absent from my blog for some time while packing up stuff from my 450m2 house and moving into a 50m2 apartment. I have been taking some of the time to go through some small stuff that has been waiting ages to be sorted and dealt with–things like photos, […]
Nothing, they say, is certain except for death and taxes. I would like to add something else that is certain – and that is grace. Which sometimes manifests itself in taxis. It was cold and dark, and I was tired. Carlton and I were headed, with our friends Jay and […]
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