Posts Tagged ‘Reconciliation’

Vessel

I just had to get this off my chest I know it’s been a while since we talked But I went on a little journey Packed up all I had And set sail Rough water And winds That tossed me back and forth My broken theology boat wasn’t strong enough About halfway I had to drop my best intentions Storms came And They...

September 16th, 2012 | Poetry | Read More

When All the Church Can Say is “I’m Sorry”

Two weeks after we arrived in Portland, Amy (my wife and new senior pastor at First Christian Church in downtown Portland) decided she needed to do something meaningful to express her voice as a person of faith in the community. There already were the folks handing out tracts down on the campus of...

July 13th, 2012 | Essays | Read More

The Whole Gospel Please…Everything

Traveling and teaching is nearly always a joy for me, primarily because of the incredible privilege I have of meeting Christians from other parts of the world and hearing their story. In the fall, I met two young women from far eastern Russia, living just miles from the Chinese border. They’d...

February 11th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

The Hidden Wound

In those precious few minutes a day when I’m not working or playing with my five month-old daughter, I have been scribbling down thoughts and notes and quotes for an essay I’m writing for an upcoming issue of the Writers Collective. A couple years ago, I had this idea that American followers...