UPDATE: Following the sermon/teaching Sunday @ Otter Creek Church on the role of mysticism and the Spirit in the life of deep spirituality . . .
I had lunch with a friend recently who told me he’d never experienced sleep paralysis prior to me talking about it. This is one of the danger about talking publicly [...]

I just finished watching Everything is Spiritual (hour long teaching by Rob Bell). In this film, Bell takes on the relationship of religion and science (specifically spirituality and quantum physics) and demonstrates the way in which religion and science are in dialog (not argumentation) with each other. NOTE: Bell admits his subjective starting point. That [...]

Interesting opinions piece in the N.Y. Times recently. 
Scot McKnight has a brilliant little piece on “Impostor Syndrome”

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I was in a conversation with good friends recently about the power of knowing the stories of those around us. Kara started talking about how important genograms (gee-know-grams or gen-o-grams depending upon whether you say tu-mate-o or ta-mawt-o) have [...]

Jesus is found in the little things.
I really believe that. Do you?
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Ever since I can remember, I’ve been the toilet-cleaner. I’m not speaking in metaphoric terms here (as I’m often prone to do), I’m being as literal as one can be. I remember cleaning toilets as part of my weekly chores growing up in the [...]

I got to hang out in Cass Park this morning with my friend Shaun Hover–just back from working with young adults in India and Pakistan. Some of you will remember Shaun from the stories told here and here and here.
This morning, we spent time following up with different people from this past Sunday’s time in [...]

There are two primary ways the church teaches us to engage God: time and space. We must pay attention to time for it is the most precious gift we can give to God and to others. It is a gift that far outweighs any dollar amount (despite the consumerist notion that “time is money”). Equally [...]

This blog is for the book worms. Holla. Hope this helps and encourages. Here are some books I read in January:
Like You’d Understand Anyway (Shepard). A terrific collection of short stories, this book is an amazing example of what it truly means to be able to write from the inside of a character/story/particular setting. From [...]