This post originally appeared at Conciliar Post. After fifteen difficult months of travel, they had made it. Lewis and Clark had reached the spring that began the Missouri River, that great river they had been following since they crossed the Mississippi and began their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. For over three hundred years beforeContinue reading “Canoeing the Mountains”
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Check Out the Arise Church Podcast
If you’re a fan of podcasting, check out the Arise Church Podcast, where we talk about church life, church planting, social media, COVID, sermons, and much more. It’s a fun time and host Roger Jackson does a great job of keeping things fun and informative. Check us out on Apple Podcasts Want to learnContinue reading “Check Out the Arise Church Podcast”
Why I’ve Been Absent
Longtime friends and readers of this blog will have noticed a general decline in the frequency of posts over the past several years. There are numerous reasons for this: grad school, work, kids, life in general, etc. But the primary reason has been that much of my time has been devoted to pastoral work. AfterContinue reading “Why I’ve Been Absent”
“Give Us Grace to Hold You…”
Another prayer from The Oxford Book of Prayer, this time from Fr. Gilbert Shaw: Lord, give us grace to hold you when all is weariness and fear and sin abounds within, without when love itself is tested by the doubt… that love is false, or dead within the soul, when every act brings new confusion,Continue reading ““Give Us Grace to Hold You…””
Bede Prays for Rescue
I’m reading through the “deliverance” section of The Oxford Book of Prayer this week and came across this prayer by the Venerable Bede. Join Bede and I in praying this for our world: O God that art the only hope of the world, The only refuge for unhappy men, Abiding in the faithfulness of heaven.Continue reading “Bede Prays for Rescue”
Six Quick Suggestions for Surviving Social Distancing
As more and more of our world is shutting down and embracing social distancing, some of us are wondering how we’re going to make it through the next several weeks with our sanity intact. I don’t have the answers, but I do have six suggestions that I hope are helpful. 1. Limit your time onContinue reading “Six Quick Suggestions for Surviving Social Distancing”
Pursuing Veritas 