As creator of The OOZE, Spencer Burke is usually the one pitching questions to some of today’s most prominent voices affecting the church in transition, from Shane Clayborne to Phyllis Tickle. But when Burke made a recent swing through Portland conducting interviews for THEOOZE.TV, he took time to...

My dad wasn’t always there. He was around and fatherly for my childhood but relatively absent for most of my teenage years. He regrets missing those irreplaceable moments of first dates and first cars, and we’ve reconciled since those vacant years but neither of us can get them back. I tell you that...