Dec 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Richard Rohr – Falling Upward from Plain Truth Ministries on Vimeo. Interviewer: Steve Stewart (Impact Nations)
Dec 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism, it is worthwhile remembering whose birth, exactly, was commemorated on Sunday. The association of Christianity with...
Dec 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
This morning for some reason, I got thinking about how “in him we live and move and have our being.” … And how God’s love surrounds and upholds all of us all the time. There are so many moments where God’s presence erupts boldly and unexpectedly and creates a...
Dec 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Presence of The Presence A ministry of presence is how I defined my pastoral model as prison chaplain. I borrowed the term from David Augsburger (1986); his phrase, the presence of the Presence. With this focus I enhanced my job description’s first item which read,...
Dec 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
My own discipline, social work, emerged in part out of the social gospel movement of the early 1900s. One of the great minds of that movement, the Baptist preacher Walter Rauschenbusch, once gave the conference sermon at a gathering of social workers....
Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have a story to tell. I struggle with telling it, not wanting to become yet another loud voice screaming into an echo chamber of ideas. But it needs to be told and if you will listen I hope it will be a story of restoration and freedom to you. I...
