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PB&J

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Five years ago, during my summer as a camp counselor, I discovered I had within my untested vocal cords the “Dad” voice. The final day of the last week of camp came at last, and parents bumped their minivans up the gravel road. The parents (who, a few nights ago, the campers could not imagine [...]

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CCblogs Pentecost Posts

Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As a member of the Christian Century Blogging Community, I have the privilege of being part of a group of Christians devoted to sharing their encounters with God. Below are links to recent posts about the Holy Spirit and Pentecost, which we celebrate on Sunday, May 31. Please check out these blogs and also scroll [...]

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Sacking the monasteries

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been working on a Confirmation class recently, and the lessons keeping popping up here on the blog. Here’s the English Reformation in 1000 words. The airbrushed version of the story goes like this: King Henry VIII needed a male heir. His wife had only managed a daughter and things were looking bleak on that [...]

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A woefully abridged timeline

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

We’re in the fifth week of a confirmation class at church, and I (unwisely) decided to teach a class on the first 1500 years of Christian history. I never thought I’d forget just how much happened in those 1500 years, but apparently, I did. So, I grabbed my church history books and a timeline I [...]

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CCblogs Lenten posts

Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Christian Century blogging community of which I am a member has collected its postings about Lent. Check them out here or click one of the following links. Don’t Eat Alone The Connection Pastor’s Post Faith at Ease Holy Vignettes I-YOUniverse Where the Wind As the Deer The Other Jesus Mark Powell Getting There Ellen [...]

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“He had a beard!”*

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Have you ever noticed that none of the people who wrote the Gospel ever takes the time to describe what Jesus looked like? In Mark’s account of the Gospel, Jesus comes onstage nine verses in, ready for a dunk in the river. The text says simply: “In those days Jesus came up from Nazareth of [...]

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Hope near the fourth jumbotron

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We arrived on the Mall in the predawn chill after a two hour power walk from 24th and M. During the walk, we passed pairs of camouflaged soldiers at each cross street, a siren-blaring police car from the DC public library (?), and hundreds of vendors hawking T-shirts, hats, keychains, and copies of the Washington [...]

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My Pavlovian response to the word “evangelical”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

There’s a good chance I’m about to get incredibly soap-boxy, but I’m going to try my best to fight that tendency. Do you remember the WABAC (“way-back”) machine on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show? You know, the segment with the professorial dog and the red-headed kid who asked inane questions. If I could join Peabody [...]

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Who’s to say where the wind will take you?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Adam, a follower of Christ, to all those who find this blog through the Series of Tubes. Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! The Apostle Paul really nailed the beginnings of his letters, so I thought I’d borrow his intro formula to begin my blog. Paul journeyed all over [...]

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