All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise!
This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Again. Isn’t it strange that every year we take the beautiful story that many of us have been told all our lives and that we consider very familiar and try...
View ArticleEmily’s Top 2012 Books
Here are my top book picks for the year 2012: -The Definate-ish Guide for Using Social Media in the Church, Bruce Reyes-Chow Bruce Reyes-Chow’s new-ish book is a great read and resource for both...
View ArticleThe Future of Serious Spiritual Practices
Can we imagine a church where play and imagination are seen as serious spiritual disciplines? I did training last year in Godly Play. If you’re not familiar, Godly Play is an interactive storytelling...
View ArticleLitany for Dying Computers
My laptop has been struggling for a while now. Last year I (and by I I mean “I got someone else to”) replaced an important part, and that kept it going for a while. Now it has stopped charging, slowed...
View ArticleLenten Worship Materials
Purple–the liturgical color of Lent I have already and will continue to throughout Lent put up some worship materials on the page “Lent 2013” under the Worship Resources heading at the top of the...
View Article1 Year of Dream PC(USA)
This post is also published on Dream PC(USA). One year ago today something that has helped shaped the rhythm of my life was born–Dream PC(USA). It began when GA 220 ended. Many people were upset about...
View ArticleBackground to The Christ the King Sunday Reflection
You can read the entire Christ the King Sunday Reflection printed in the 2013 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook here. A year and a half ago when I responded to an email from a seminary friend who had gone...
View ArticleLessons & New Carols
For Advent this year I wanted to take up something spiritual that would give me some energy and let me be creative and whatnot. When the call went out for Advent! Awake! new devotionals for Advent I...
View ArticleNew Carol: Day has Dawned on Us in Darkness
About Lessons and New Carols: a spiritual discipline for Advent 2013 of writing new texts to old hymn tunes following the readings of a Lessons and Carols service. It may not come to a surprise to most...
View ArticleNew Carol: In Those Days Augustus Sent
About Lessons and New Carols: a spiritual discipline for Advent 2013 of writing new texts to old hymn tunes following the readings of a Lessons and Carols service. One of the things I’m struggling with...
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