King David gets owned by Nathan. The Word should slay us too…
Cave of Adullum
Dave in a Cave
Wild Earth, Wild Self, Wild Christ
Last morning hike and reflection on an incredible week at Ghost Ranch with the Seminary of the Wild
Who is The Church For? Rev. Dave Van Deren
How to Improv Your Life
Miles Davis, jazz improv, and the limits to freedom we willingly take on in Christ to prevent our living from sounding like mere noodling…or just going through the changes…
Listen to Your Life
Elijah heard a little somethin’…or maybe nothing at all. We can always hear the same.
Freedom to be Freer than Religion
5 Clergy Walk Into a Bar: Weddings and Funerals
stories from the front where the couple stands; where the casket sits
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Spiritual Entrepreneurs
So much has changed about how we should do business. All is far from lost, but we are going to need to adapt…
Temple Remodel: Foundation, Function, and Joy
Reflecting on the state of our institution(s) and how to move ahead
Temple Remodel: Assessing the Neighborhood
The Temple doesn’t work the way it used to. That is really sad. But we have remodeled before…
Fruitless.
reflecting on Palm Sunday’s Irony, our own duplicity, Jesus cursing the religious institution, and a chance to finally be honest about where we fit in.
2 Poems from a Beach
Why We Don’t Read
The wor(l)d’s safer
with no wor(l)ds on paper.
The Swimmer
Buoyed by my newly light self
the density of daily life
seems a poor reading of what is.
Weighted by the shame of expense
I greet the maid and feel
worse still about my white and weight.
What heavy problems could I really have?
Itinerary and passport, map reading, cash.
I glimpse your trailing orange bauble
it is sunrise and sunset both
silent beacon flashes, beckons,
out beyond where
I daily swim.
The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Past Ten Years
A bracket of 64 gets argued down to one winner! (sort of)
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Clergy Roles and Clergy Fails Part 2
The conclusion of lunch wide-open talk about failing, dying, and keeping your job
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Clergy Roles and Clergy Fails Part 1
Lunch reflections with the gang #clergyfails
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4 Clergy
Ministry and gender – resurrection and pastorate both
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Warren
Up on a deck overlooking a river in Idaho with a Music Teacher/theologian/philosopher
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5 Clergy Walk into a Bar part 3
the conclusion of a lunch conversation with 5 clergy in Littleton
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5 Clergy Walk Into a Bar Part 2
a conversation continues with new friends around table…they all happen to be pastors…
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5 Clergy Walk Into a Bar (part 1)
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The Remains of the Career
Reflections on a great Book, that became a movie, that gets quoted in a famous TV show, that blew my little mind.
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A Mountain of Rules
Sundays story of the 10 Commandments, housed in Richard Rohr’s wisdom of needing a goad to kick against…
Norm Part 4
In our concluding paragraphs the stories turn to death, and the prophetic urgency laid upon all of us to address it ahead of time
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Norm Part 3
Conversation with Norm asks “what is different between spirituality and religion?”Also, ridiculousness
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Norm Part 2
Part two and we get talking about Boundaries in chaplaincy and in the parish
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Norm Part 1
The head of Spiritual Services for a city hospital talks to me about chaplaincy. I know him well…
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Wading for a Better Outcome
comments on the Great Crossing, our following or leading, and our part both in Liberation as well as Captivity
Mark Chapter 3
The conclusion of my conversation with Mark, about conversion, daughters, love, and of course another Whitworth story:
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Mark Chapter 2
Part two of our conversation in Eugene OR about family and faith.
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Mark Chapter 1
What’s Going On at the Cross?
Some alternatives to God’s blood thirsty reputation in traditional understanding. Including Reformed thought from the 1500s
Giving God the First Born
Sunday’s Exodus account of the Passover and its ties to the Crucifixion. AND an entirely different way to think about it all…
From Exodus to Genesis: Drawn Out
Meditation on the first Moses, who set the example for the Second we follow. And the most unsuspected teaching on Resurrection you will hear all year…
From Exodus to Genesis: Saying No to Pharaoh
Our fall journey begins with two women who say no.
81018 – 14er Adventure with too much drama
What goes up, optimistic:
must come down…
With a Little Help from Friends: “Plurality, Play, and Authenticity in the Most Influential Album Ever”
That’s a long title for some fun romping around on a 50th Anniversary
SIDE A: The concept, and what the Trinity has to do with it:
SIDE B: The personalities, and what we might have to do with it:
SIDE C: finishing up with the The Best Song From the Most Influential Album of All Time by the Best Band of All time: