May 2012
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bears and monsters
The upcoming UNCO12 conference asked for submissions of liturgies based on 2 Kings 2:23-25 today on Facebook. That’s the passage where the bears come out of the woods and maul the children taunting Elisha. Not a verse often heard in church.
Still, sometimes inspiration can come from pretty curious places. After sitting with the text for a moment, what I ended up writing seems oddly...
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Being people of grace
I was having a conversation with my dad a few days ago about how to deal with people who take a hard lined, black and white approach to politics, environmentalism, faith or just life in general. We both related stories where we were dealing with someone who wanted us to make a particular choice based on their skewed (in our opinion, anyway) worldview and were debating how best to engage or not...
April 2012
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“The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments,...”
– Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (1985)
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March 2012
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call to ministry, part ii
In part due to my experience in Africa, I returned in the fall of 2009 to Seattle for graduate school at Northwest University. Though my studies were focused on non-profit management and international development, art and role of worship in the life of the church were never far from my mind. I began attending Sanctuary Church, a small Christian Reformed Church here in the Greenwood neighborhood of...
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call to the ministry, part i
“So, when are you joining the ministry?”
I heard this phrase on many occasions growing up in church. Not because of any passionate or charismatic sermons in youth group or expressed interest to be in pastoral leadership, but rather because my dad was the pastor of our church.
“Oh, that’s not for me,” was my usual response.
Somewhere along my journey though I came...