Does Organizing Religion Defeat The Purpose?
“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH ORGANIZATION” Dan Kimball over at Vintage Faith is asking for people’s gut reaction to the phrase “organized religion”. Dan is writing a book and one of his chapters is about organized religion and why he believes churches need to be organized in a healthy way.  Dan realizes that the phrase “organized religion” [...]

Forever Young – Wishing This For My Wonderful Sons, Nick and Joey
May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young. May you grow up to be righteous May you grow up to be [...]

Deconstructing The Great Commission – Part Two
‘To be a witness means to offer your own faith experience and to make your doubts and hopes, failures and successes, loneliness and woundedness, available to others as a context in which they can struggle with their own humanness and quest for meaning.’   --Henry Nouwen (Spiritual Direction) I didn’t get a lot of response to my previous post [...]

Random Thoughts
(A friend sent these to me via email today) 1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when [...]

Deconstructing The Great Commission
  As many of you know I’ve been doing a lot of deconstructing of Christianity over the last few years – examining what I’ve been taught, what I believed about God, Jesus, and scripture, and what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.  Let me tell you…it is a very, very, very long process [...]