I’ll make a confession. When I was still a child I once visited my cousins in Korea. They lavished on me, their American family, with food, gifts, affection. They shared everything with me. I was so blessed. And so ungrateful. One day someone bought a couple of robot toys for us cousins. They were dispersedContinue reading “How To Kill Ungratefulness”
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Swaying on the Tight Rope of Life: A Spiritual Perspective
Is your life presently characterized by equanimity in the crossing, or by violent wobbling and threat of crashing? This past Sunday in my sermon (“Discipleship” 1/5/14) I made a reference to the story of Charles Blondin, famous tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls, but particularly from the perspective of the man he carried on hisContinue reading “Swaying on the Tight Rope of Life: A Spiritual Perspective”
7 Things a Protestant Minister Can Learn at a Benedictine Monastery
I’ve been spending this week at a Benedictine Monastery in Nebraska taking my final class for ordination in the Evangelical Covenant Church. It has been a beautiful week of self-examination, spiritual direction, counseling, and pastoral health. I mean it when I say that churches are the better for it when their pastors are required toContinue reading “7 Things a Protestant Minister Can Learn at a Benedictine Monastery”
#GODonFILM: HARRY POTTER / DH2 is unmistakably religious, spiritual, and dare I even say “Christian”
This Sunday we’ll be covering the last movie of our GODonFILM series – and boy what a way to go out. Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows 2 is a deeply satisfying conclusion to the decade-long affair, and it consummated a lot of the mystery and the waitings of the series. I, for one, walked outContinue reading “#GODonFILM: HARRY POTTER / DH2 is unmistakably religious, spiritual, and dare I even say “Christian””
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