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Pursuing Questions. Exploring Paradox.
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Slow Down and Ponder #6: Worship
When I was in college, for several semesters I earned my evening meals working in the kitchen of the Kappa Delta sorority down the street from my fraternity house. Besides good food, being a waiter was a lot of fun. Not only did I get to know lots of girls, but...
Slow Down and Ponder #5: Scripture
When someone moves beyond hunger to actual malnutrition, certain predictable symptoms begin to appear. They include fatigue and low energy, poor immune function, slowed reaction times and trouble paying attention, poor growth, muscle weakness and osteoporosis...
Slow Down and Ponder #4: Prayer
During seminary I spent a semester as a hospital chaplain, serving eight hours/day in a large metropolitan medical center. Never in my life had I been exposed to situations of life and death or the emotional stress felt by patients and their families. I felt...
Slow Down and Ponder #3: A Simpler Life
Some years ago I was listening as our small home group discussed the spiritual disciplines we’re focusing on this Lenten season. One of our group members gave a great analogy. She said that anyone who desires to have a healthier diet must do two things...
My Content (What I Write About)
My goal is helping you pursue powerful questions that will lead you into new discoveries—about yourself, the world around you and, especially, God.
Where others give answers that side-step nuance or mystery, I ask questions.
Questions open us up to new truth in ways that easy answers do not. I believe this is particularly true for spiritual issues, where the Christian faith journey has often been described as “faith seeking understanding.” My hope is pursue this journey in ways that challenge our minds and deepen our faith.
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity…..but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
Do these words of Oliver Wendell Holmes resonate with you?
- I write for people weary of simplistic answers. By exploring complex issues, my hope is to emerge on the “other side” into a more genuine and truthful simplicity.
- I write for thinkers who believe reality is never captured in a Twitter message, and who need practical ways to keep believing in a “post truth” society.
- I write for explorers who believe the X Files’ promise: “The truth IS out there.” My offer is to journey alongside together seeking the truth (and Truth) that inevitably challenges and expands our current worldviews.
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Paradox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of God
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