A few months ago, during the holidays, I was wandering around Powell’s Books on Hawthorne. This isn’t unusual for me. While I love the Powell’s flagship location — the City of Books in downtown Portland, home to over a million … Read More
Last week my wife and I reserved for the morning one of the meeting rooms at Broadway Commons. Over coffee and muffins, we took a “mini-retreat,” looking back at 2015 and ahead to 2016 through the lens of our most important … Read More
It’s the season for weddings. Kate and I have been to four in just the last month, including the wedding for Kate’s sister, which we hosted in our backyward. My favorite part of a wedding — besides the cake, obviously … Read More
The first time I heard about David Fitch was at the Inhabit Conference a few years back. I was talking to a couple of friends in the main lobby of the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, the seminary where … Read More
A couple years ago, I read an interesting article over at The Atlantic Cities called the “The Lifecycle of a ‘Cool’ Neighborhood.” The sociologist and historian Richard Greenwald writes in the article that “Declaring the death of hip neighborhoods seems to be an endless right of … Read More
Walter Brueggemann is one of the greatest living Bible scholars. He has written dozens of books — including The Land, Journey to the Common Good, Finally Comes the Poet, and The Prophetic Imagination — as well as hundreds of articles. Last year, he published Sabbath as … Read More
[Update: Make sure to check out Coté Soerens’s response to this post. She brings up some important points: “Yet, we are a long ways to go in the task of breaking long-held barriers to diversity and dialogue between communities in the US…The forces … Read More