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Pursuing Questions. Exploring Paradox.
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Taking Your Spiritual Temperature?
This past Christmas our extended family opted for each person receiving one main present through a Secret Santa lottery. I've used my gift almost every day since then: it’s a cup with a built-in heating unit to keep my tea always hot. No more frequent trips to the...
A 5 Minute Tour of Creation–while Skiing!
Powerful Words for Troubled Times
During my 21 years pastoring a church in Central California, I was part of the clergy rotation to offer the opening prayer at monthly City Council meetings. Once a contentious issue required moving the meeting from City Hall to a high school gym to accommodate the...
A Prayer for This Moment in America
As many of us are still reeling from the January 6 attack on Congress meeting in our nation's Capitol, and as our nation inaugurates a new President tomorrow, I cannot think of anything we need to do more than pray. In my Presbyterian tradition worship is declaring...
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.
My Featured Publication
Paradox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of God
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