Fuzzythinking

Fuzzy Thoughts of David

Category: Spirituality

  • 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…

  • A Morning Prayer

    “I Cannot Do This Alone” O God, early in the morning I cry to you.Help me to prayAnd to concentrate my thoughts on you;I cannot do this alone. In me there is darkness,But with you there is light;I am lonely, but you do not leave me;I am feeble in heart, but with you   there is…

  • Theology Blogging Tour (Philip Clayton & Harvey Cox)

    Philip Clayton and Harvey Cox both have new books out and they are taking them out on tour. One of the blog tour stops will be here, but as you can see below they will be making their rounds over the next month until they wrap things up in Montreal at the American Academy of…

  • One Thing

    “Father in Heaven! What is man without thee! What is all that he knows, vast accumulation though it be, but a chipped fragment if he knows not thee! Thee the One, who art one thing and art all! So mayest thou give to the intellect, wisdom to comprehend that one thing; to the heart, sincerity…

  • The Last Goodbye Revisited

    Grief is a funny thing. As a pastor, I’ve read about grief, I’ve studied it and I’ve watched people go through it. Yet, I am still surprised. I was surprised this morning to find myself in tears after a dream I had about my father. My father died in September. Here it is in May…