To hate … or to love?
So… it’s been almost two years since I’ve been here last, friends. And… that’s a long time to be silent. I know I owe you all an update. While you’re waiting on that, I thought I’d let you know…
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I gave up on New Year’s resolutions a while ago. The hype annoyed me and I know that if I try to pressure myself into doing something (or, worse, have someone else pressure me), I’ll just flip my finger and…
Who’s asking you questions?
There are a lot of questions I’ve been asking recently… to others sometimes, but mostly to myself. There’s a certain benefit in being able to process life with myself– it makes me constantly aware of things in my own life…
I need to remember the good news
I have a hard time trusting God. There’s this image of a screw which has come into contact with a heart, so that each time the heart beats, the screw slices the flesh. That’s what I mean when I say…
What makes community?
I am working on a list of things (because I don’t have enough to keep me occupied, CLEARLY) that I think about community. But if you’ve spent much time with me processing through ideas, you know that i can think…
Last Thoughts on Church Rebel(lion)
Scars and war stories bring people together. Kids on a playground, adults fighting the same demons, war vets… there’s something about comparing bruises and identifying with someone else’s pain which forges friendships that even many years cannot boast. This blog series and,…
O Rebel, Where Art Thou, Trait #8
Today David is here with our last Trait post on the Church Rebel (don’t worry– we’ll have a wrap up for next week… one written with me in his homeland, probably over beers, coffee and war stories). I squirmed…
That God loves me no less than the murderer
As a young person growing up in my faith tradition, I heard* that Jesus was here for the downtrodden, for the drug dealer, for the murderer and the adulterer. That’s what all the awesome testimonies were at our youth conferences…
O Rebel, Where Art Thou? (Trait #7)
When David asked me what I was thinking for our series this week, I told him casually, “Oh… I’m cataloging my most frustrating personal faults and seeing which of them stem from/relate to this rebel thing.” And then I found…
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