Essay: Belonging
Real belonging grows roots
Some of the things I would talk about if we were having lunch at the office together.
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Liturgy of the Workplace
May our work not be idolatrous or consuming, but an offering of praise
Storm Sermon
Jesus loves you too much to let your faith remain just an intellectual abstraction
Review: Mayflower
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors–and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entail...
Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel
"History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences in peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences amongst peop...
Review: The Great Influenza, the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Precedent for These Unprecedented Times
Review: Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
Paradoxes with a “strong sense of an unuttered joy”
Review: The Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks
The hard-to-believe story about America’s first foreign war
Review: A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry
Learning to face death and the banalities of life
Wilderness Sermon
Where we fail, Jesus succeeds and does it perfectly. When God looks at our own wilderness/COVID failures, He only sees the perfection of Jesus.
Review: Answers in the Form of Questions
“The only thing more preposterous than going on Jeopardy! is going on and thinking you can win”
2020 Christmas Eve Sermon
We have the presence of God and the promise of Immanuel: that as we wait for God to act, God waits with us, and in us. Really.