Author: David
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Where You Don’t Want to Go
The end of John contains an image I continue to reflect on as I work on my dissertation in Missional Spirituality and pastoring a church. Jesus looks at Peter and says, “Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when…
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Jesus Sacrificed…so You Don’t Have To
Right now I’m reading Michael Slaughter’s new book Change The World. So far it is a great book and I really admire Slaughter for changing gears when he senses that God is moving in a different direction. At one point he writes, “It is not acceptable to make doctrine and church meetings a substitute for…
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My Dissertation Project
I have started my dissertation project which is a good thing. Trying to explain it though is kind of difficult. The reason I have such difficult explaining it is because the project address cultural issues and the church’s response. I have read that there is an old Chinese proverb that says, “If you want to…
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More than Chaplains
I was intrigued by something I read in Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon The pastor becomes nothing more than the court chaplain, presiding over ceremonies of the culture, a pleasing fixture for rites of passage like weddings and funerals, yet rites in which the pastor’s presence becomes more and more absurd…
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Upgraded
I just upgraded this site to the new version of WordPress. It went surprisingly smooth. Now I can post from my iPod. I keep thinking I should resurrect this now that I’m working on my dissertation. I’m hoping this doesn’t get sent to facebook.