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I have yet to meet anyone who likes to wait. I usually stink at it, to tell you the truth. But within the rhythm of the Christian year, Advent is the block of time leading up to Christmas given over…
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Leavin’…on a Sunday mornin’
“I want to leave my church, but I feel as though I’ve committed to them for life,” my friend K. said to me recently. She went on to explain that her congregational leaders taught that membership was a covenant between…
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A Response To “An Open Letter To Everyone Over 40 Who Has Left The Church”
Author Margaret Feinberg has penned a kind and genuine expression of concern for those who have left the institutional church at midlife. (Click here to read it.) She affirms the types of issues that typically push some empty-nesters out of…
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My 2012 writing life: shock absorbers and flat tires
I am preaching the message below to myself. I wrote the words below four years ago, and need to revisit them again today: One of our former pastors (that’s a depressing phrase, but I digress…) had a catchy little way…
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God at the Waffle House (yes, the Waffle House)
I’ve had fairly limited internet access this week as we’ve been traveling. It became an unplanned digital Shabbat, intermittently punctuated with internet access that left me feeling a little like I was standing in front of a wide-open information firehose,…
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Review: Walk With Me
Even if you’ve never read John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, you’re probably familiar with the allegorical description of the Christian life as a dangerous journey filled with “many dangers, toils and snares”. The story is a touchstone in the canon of…