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September 2015

September 29, 2015

Are The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Possible? Yep

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that Jesus was right....

September 22, 2015

Bobblehead Pope Francis

There it was. Someone had told me about it, but to see it right there...

September 08, 2015

Dad’s Not So Afraid Anymore

My father is coming up on 99 years of age. When he was born we...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Good People; Eroding Ethics?

In 1938 Nicolas Winton, a stock broker, took a two week vacation from his home...

July 01, 2015

Hey, We’re Chrsitians Too, Two

It’s interesting to me that Brooks did not speak to the progressive Christian community. Why?...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Hey, We’re Christians Too

I’d like to think that New York times columnist, David Brooks, reads my blog but...

June 30, 2015

How to Grow Up (or at least free up)

I wondered what they thought at the next table. Dr. Waetjen was quite exorcized when...

June 24, 2015

SIN: Has the Church Abdicated?

In writing more on this blog I’ve been finding my voice in a different way....

June 24, 2015

What the Pope Said About Charleston

News cycles being what they are, it seems that the Pope’s encyclical on the environment...

June 22, 2015

Must We Talk About the confederate Flag?

Do we really have to listen to arguments about whether the confederate flag, (deliberate typo),...

June 12, 2015

Escape, Freedom, and Pleasure

I just found out I’m preaching again on July 4th weekend. Sure enough every year...

June 12, 2015

You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself

It breaks my heart but I keep doing it. It breaks my heart but I...

June 09, 2015

Felt Crushed, But I Got It

I preached at a Center for Spiritual Living last Sunday and I learned that the...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

Happify and Integral Theory

The reader will be forgiven for thinking that “Happify” is a silly name, but having...

November 06, 2014

Success Summit 3.0 and Outrageous Love Letters

Just back from the Success Summit 3.0 in Boulder, four amazing, heart opening days with...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Love Letter 35

I’ve got a really long list of people to write love letters to and it...

October 14, 2014

Love Letter 34

I love you so much it makes me giddy. Here I am sitting in the...

October 14, 2014

Love Letter 33

It’s funny how it works when I’m out late working. You would not believe how...

October 10, 2014

A Response to Mark Labberton’s “Called, The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today.”

Full disclosure: I know Mark Labberton; I know him well enough to hold him in...

October 09, 2014

Love Letter 32

Dear Barbara, It’s your turn again; in fact it’s going to be your turn for...

October 09, 2014

Love Letter 31

Oh my God, if you could see yourself the way that I do, then you...

October 07, 2014

Love Letter 30

Dear Tom, You’ve been gone a long time now it seems, and yet the tears...

October 05, 2014

Love Letter 29

I absolutely adore you – really it’s true. From the shape of your body, (I...

October 05, 2014

Love Letter 28

Dear Grammy, I’m writing this to you as part of a shared spiritual exercise with...

October 05, 2014

Love Letter 27

What a delight and a surprise to be writing this letter after all these years....

October 01, 2014

Love Letter 26

It is perhaps true that I never loved you “like that,” whatever “that” means, but...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Love Letter 25

I love you. I really do. There you sat in our living room last night,...

September 27, 2014

Love Letter 24

Some days are hard to open up so I thought I’d pick someone easy to...

September 25, 2014

Love Letter 23

I am a lucky man. We’ve known each other our whole lives. There isn’t a...

September 25, 2014

Love Letter 22

Every day is getting better. Each day we sing and its like the rhythms of...

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