A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Conversation that Kindles Imagination and Courage

| July 1, 2008

ShareI rarely simply quote someone and leave it at that. I always like to add my two-cents thinking that my insight will make it better (as if). But tonight when I read this paragraph, it summarized exactly what we are experiencing in real-time here in Folsom within a small group of friends. So here it [...]

When We Dream Together

| June 30, 2008

Share You got to love Peet’s Coffee. Not only is it way better than a certain Seattle-originated coffee place (I made a commitment not to slander on my blog) but it is also where God brought together a few unlikely people. Jonathan Brink and I went to college together way back in the day (1993) [...]

God and Love: From the Lips of a Seven-Year-Old

| May 23, 2008

Share On our way home the other night, I was having a great conversation with my son about God. I told him that there was nothing he could ever do that would cause God to love him any less fully than he does now. To help convey the point, I told him that even if [...]

God and Laughter: From the Lips of a Seven-Year-Old

| May 22, 2008

Share A few families got together the other night and began having a great conversation about God. On the way home, I was talking to my son about it and he said, “Dad, you guys weren’t talking about God. You were laughing.” Ouch. At seven, he already has an “image” of God that doesn’t really [...]

God and Sunday: From the Lips of a Seven-Year-Old

| May 21, 2008

Share My son and I were having a good conversation about God while driving home the other night. Then he stopped and said, “Dad, can we stop talking about God, it’s not Sunday. We are only supposed to talk about God on Sundays.” Ouch. What have we done?

Emerging’s Fluid Conversation of Grey

| December 24, 2007

Share  “There is a very good reason why it’s difficult to pin the Emerging Church down on certain issues. Simply put, the Emerging Church is an evolving movement, a fluid conversation. … The EC’s slippery nature, as some might put it, also hints at its postmodern beginnings…..Conversation is good. That’s the way many in the [...]