Here is the prompt from over at Revgals. Friday Five: Habits “The weekly church reading group I facilitate has just finished reading and discussing The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. It is a fascinating book with research about business and people’s habits or routines.…
This was originally posted at There is Power in The Blog. I recently saw the film, “Elysium”, starring Matt Damon. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, but from what I could tell, it wasn’t war or earthquake or zombies that ruined Earth and turned it into a hell-scape where people lived in rubble and…
Much of the talk among my social media church people these days is about what we need to do to get the Millennial Generation back in the church. Rachel Held Evans wrote a piece on cnn.com’s belief blog about it and then responded further here. I am a big fan of her writing, and even…
A sermon preached July 28, 2013 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Amos 7:7-17 It is good to be home. A week at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium in Purdue with 5,000 of my closest friends and then most of a week in Maine, recovering from Triennium while Alden was at a soccer camp. I…
Today was the closing worship service at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium. This is a denominational youth event of both the PCUSA (the denomination I serve) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Churches. It takes place every three years at Purdue University in the heat of summer. I have been to every Triennium since 1998 and hope to…
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Perhaps you read Elizabeth Smart’s comments on human trafficking recently. As a 14 year old kidnapping victim, she connected her feeling of worthlessness after her abduction and sexual abuse, with an abstinence lecture she had heard. Here’s the quote that is getting all the traction: “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh,…
This week, a friend shared an article on Facebook, Eleven Things You Might Not Understand About Your Minister. I was totally expecting to relate to this list. Because I can come up with eleven hundred things people don’t understand about me and what I do. But the list had almost no relation to my life,…
Today in worship, members of the Human Rights House Church of Southminster shared their reflections from participation at the Boise PRIDE festival in June 2013. This is the 3rd year our congregation has been at the rally, marched in the parade, and had a booth at the festival, passing out over 80 cases of free…
Here was the prompt this week over at Revgals while I was on vacation: “This week’s blog carnival topic is: What does Galship mean to you? The phrase was originally coined to refer to RevGal Fellowship–all the ways we build community, share our lives, support each other, and have fun. So blog about Galship–have you had…
My friend Robert asked the question, “how does the demise of DOMA affect my relationship with God?” And then he answered it with, “it doesn’t.” And I think more people need to consider why that is true. Because there is nothing in the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act that could possibly interfere with…
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