Healthy, Adaptive, Joyous: I help folks name the truth about how hard church life is these days. Being honest is the starting point for freeing up considerable energy locked up in denial, fear, and grief. A healthy community learns and changes, opening new channels for ministry…

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“are there any questions?”

“Hard Teachings”

Easter 2023

Podcast Episodes from New Hope Church in Castle Rock

Pastor Jordan and I having some fun talking about preaching, faith, and pieces of congregational life

a couple core values videos from a previous congregation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mdf5e2zv0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISkvG7XsPw

Musical Arrangements: Congregational music shapes me. Piano, guitar and arranging is also a creative outlet.

A couple favorite Lenten tunes…

A celebration of “All Creatures” from a CD a few years back

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Originalism

In regards to The US Constitution an “Originalist” tries to apply the law as it was intended when it was written. This as opposed to catering to contemporary concerns and applications. This latter, more typically liberal view is sometimes referred to as the “Living Constitution” approach. There are entire philosophical schools of…

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Hartley’s Band

Felt the thud. People started scrambling… Non-denominational churches were coming into their heyday when I graduated from seminary in 1987. U.S. Mainline congregations accustomed to dominating American religion for 2 centuries were badly drifting. We just assumed we were too big to fail. Down south pastor friends were already accustomed to being…

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07/05/202307/17/2023

Quarantine Day 11

Quarantine Day 11 – How did we get here? I asked. – What do you mean? Julie was looking down over an edge where the sea of winter dead grass became a two-foot wide running gulley; the water was pulling us somehow. I meant How did this hike that began as mere…

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