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New podcast is up: Living in Babylon series (Finding spiritual rhythms)
I am trying to get a series finished I began last year. You can listen HERE. I am also on Spotify HERE. And Apple Podcasts (which take a bit for new episodes to sync in) HERE. Or, you can click on this goofy face:
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The weekend wrap up
Thoughts for the week ahead:
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Walking into the New Year
As I was preparing this post and then started to post, I put my title in first. I almost wrote: “Walking WITH PURPOSE into the New Year.” (Well, not all caps, but those were the words I chose to delete.) It’s not that “with purpose” is a bad idea. It’s a bad idea to walk into a new year stumbling…
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Leaving Babylon Part 4
This episode came from a lot of emotion because I had another conversation with another young minister who is leaving a conservative denomination because of the current partisan climate. The nice part of me wants to apologize for that, but I won’t. The closer we draw to the election, the more doubling down culturalized Christians are doing, leaving friends of…
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Discussion on Confederate monuments
I sat on a Zoom call with folks from southern Alabama to discuss Confederate monuments and how we remember history. You can see it on YouTube HERE. You can find is on my podcast HERE. I am also on iTunes HERE. Please rate the podcast in whatever platform you use.
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Leaving Babylon, Part 2
A new podcast has gone “live.” I am looking at the thought of “leaving the Babylon of our own making.” This episode goes a bit into some history with the American church and leads into where we find ourselves today. Audio podcast is HERE. YouTube version is HERE.
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Podcast — The ongoing issue of racism in our culture
I was privileged to interview two important voices in my life on the issue of racism in light of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Marlena Graves is an author and activist. Her forthcoming book The Way Up is Down is a wake up call to have our eyes on the marginalized in our world. Dennis Edwards is a professor of…
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Analog Church in the time of coronavirus
I had the privilege of interviewing Jay Kim, author of Analog Church: Why we need real people, places, and things in the digital age from Intervarsity Press. I wanted to chat with him about the book coming out as the country was under a quarantine and needed to be more digital. It was a fun conversation. Listen HERE. My book…
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Eyes on the marginalized
In how I go forward in a politically divisive age, I continue to formulate my thoughts around the WHY and the WHO. I listen regularly to Pass the Mic podcast because it comes from two young black Christian men. One is a historian. The other is a pastor. They bring perspective that challenges me and makes me think, especially when…
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The “nuclear” family and the extended family
I listened to the Holy Post Podcast and this week’s discussion (beginning around 10:30.00) has a discussion on an Atlantic Monthly article by David Brooks on the “nuclear family.” It was a fascinating discussion FOLLOWED BY Part 2 of an interview with Matthew Soerens of World Relief on the subject of immigration. Both discussions were challenging and thought provoking. The…