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April 2025

April 22, 2025
Pope Francis passed away this week. While I am no longer Catholic, my early formational...
April 19, 2025
Introduction  For my second post, I want to explore Wesely’s notions of inner and outer...
April 17, 2025
Echoes of Nietzche  We would first come aware of the notion of the death of...
April 11, 2025
Empathy Under Attack  Recently, I have been observing a peculiar thought process among some Christians,...
April 08, 2025
Names are important in all societies. They can tell us about a person’s job and...
April 05, 2025
Embracing Balance and Moderation   Being a therapist and at one point, a pastor, I get...
April 04, 2025
Remembering Martin Luther King   On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced the assassination of...

March 2025

March 30, 2025
Bultmann’s Mythology of Jesus As we move towards Easter 2025 and we celebrate the life...
March 27, 2025
An Exploration of Wesleyan Tradition and Theology  This week, in my analysis of Wesley’s Ordinances...
March 22, 2025
Lectio: Reading the Bible  Reading the bible or any sacred text is an act of...
March 22, 2025
Grace in Times of Stress As the world continues to spin and geopolitics continue to...
March 16, 2025
The Power of Prayer  I want to explore in my second post this week's prayer....
March 14, 2025
We are social creatures. We thrive when we are in community and community is one...
March 07, 2025
 I came across a quote last week that posited the idea that the historical Jesus...
March 02, 2025
Truth is Dead?!   In 2017, Time Magazine declared that “Truth is Dead”. This article confronted...
March 02, 2025
What can other faiths tell us about our own? This week, I want to reflect...

February 2025

February 21, 2025
How Shall We Go I read an interesting article the other day that pointed us...
February 18, 2025
Life was busy last week; I got my first seven-hour training week in for the...
February 12, 2025
Cultivating Right Relationships Once again, we find ourselves celebrating the romantic holiday of Valentines' Day....
February 08, 2025
Jesus asks us to keep watch in his story of the ten virgins. We are...
February 08, 2025
I remember a worship service I did with my youth group years ago when I...
February 02, 2025
I have spent the last few posts considering a thoughtful reaction to the rapid changes...
February 01, 2025
A Just God Gives Back  Another week of vindictive actions by President Trump have invaded...

January 2025

January 25, 2025
In a world where anger and anxiety are taking center stage, the practice of lament...
January 25, 2025
Patriotism, communism, socialism, racism, sexism. All these “isms” seem to be defining who we are...
January 18, 2025
Redefining Masculine Identity in Contemporary Society  As our world continues to redefine itself regarding gender...
January 18, 2025
As we get closer to the American inauguration of Donald Trump and the world seemingly...
January 12, 2025
A Calling  A common first question that is asked when you are brought in front...
January 10, 2025
A theme I have been playing around with in 2024 was the theme of loneliness....
January 06, 2025
The Meme that Started the Conversation  A friend recently shared this meme, and it has...
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