conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

I would simply like to share with you this one thing this morning: Prayer is slippery, slick, and generally elusive. That is all. Enjoy your day. Now, where did I put that breviary?

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. There are several other places I could be right now. Work calls. Other obligations call. God only knows where I would be without her. In that sense, too, I...

Emergence is already in the institutions. It’s not inevitable. It’s there. How do I know? I am standing in the pulpit of a mainline church in an affluent suburb of a major urban...

Larry and Rich both left comments in a previous post about the Mission and Ministry in the Great Emergence Conference that could be summarized as "Haven't we heard all of this before?" The answer is...

On liturgy: If roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don’t have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into...