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
Yesterday I did a Slow Church webinar in conjunction with The Presbyterian Outlook. They asked me to give a benediction at the end of the webinar, and so I decided to share that benediction here. Lord God, Giver of all gifts, … Read More
Editor’s Note: This passage by the renowned Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann resonated with me when I read it recently, an appropriate reflection for Ash Wednesday. You can read this passage in its larger context at The Englewood Review of … 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
Editor’s Note: Today is the birthday of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, born in Breslau, Prussia in 1906. I recently discovered the following passage from Bonhoeffer, which gets to the heart of Slow Church. Incidentally, this passage can be found in the book Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s … 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