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Livable Tension in a Troubled Empire (Part 1)…
- March
- 25
- 2009
…or why I don’t like “church” at times. I went to Quest’s Depth Class on “Why the Homeless” last Monday night. Tim Harris, the founder of Real Change News, was on the panel with 5 others, including our own Dustin Cross. He said something that kind of surprised me…well that he said it that is. [...]
What I’ve Been Doing for the Past Year…
- March
- 18
- 2009
Man I am really bad at this at times…sorry again. I wanted to let my friends and family who read my blog…if there are any left…what I’ve been doing. It isn’t what I expected to say the least when we left for Seattle in 2007, but I wouldn’t trade what I do for anything. I’m [...]
Tula…her name is Tula…
- November
- 9
- 2008
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Yeah I know, I know…I am sooooo behind on posting on here. I’ve got a couple of posts in mind, but till I get them written up and posted, here is something to wet your appetite. Here is a piece I wrote for a recent writing contest. I didn’t win…or even get short listed…but I [...]
New Blog URL…
- September
- 2
- 2008
Hello readers….been a long time…yeah sorry about that. Any ways, I was talking to my friend Dean and he sent me a list of cool sounding URL’s that were up for grabs. None of them interested me, but it got me thinking. I wonder if Metrospirituality.com is taken? I looked…and it was, but Metrospirituality.org wasn’t, [...]
Funny but…sad…little video
- June
- 3
- 2008
Pastors can be such idiots. Ok, so I just got my MDiv diploma in the mail over the weekend which means I went through the whole like official training for a Pastor type. One of the many things they never mentioned, even in the craptastic Pastoral Counseling course, was not to use your family for [...]
The Shepard and the Knucklehead…
- May
- 27
- 2008
…Reinforced a valuable lesson…Environment matters. Jeff invited me to his latest "gig" over the holiday weekend in Kirkland. Despite the outrageous gas prices and inability to have a Guinness (part of my SBC funding stipulations) I headed up there with him to the Wilde Rover Irish Pub. He was doing this…ummm…well…not quite an event, not [...]
The Curse of Ham by Noah…
- May
- 20
- 2008
You know the dude with the big boat and all the animals. Most people know the story of Noah, if not the Biblical Version then at least the Evan Almighty Version, but there is one rather often overlooked part that bears some attention now a days. Noah was, by no means perfect…actually rather not at [...]
Emergent Cohort in the News
- April
- 11
- 2008
At the end of April 2005, almost two years before we moved, I started attending the Baltimore Emergent Cohort after Dean McKenzie invited me to their initial meeting. For those who are not familiar with Emergent or emerging churches check out Emergent Village, that will explain enough to grab the gist of the whole thing…as [...]
"Good" Friday….
- March
- 21
- 2008
I’ve been doing this church thing for a couple of years now. Something has kind of bugged for the last couple or so. Now I’ve never been involved with a church that was all ceremonial and ritualistic like, but still, most of them, especially in recent years, have done something with Holy Week beyond Easter [...]
It’s been a year…Wait, it’s been a year!?! (part 3)
- March
- 19
- 2008
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Church Shopping and Quest… So, we realized pretty quickly that New Vintage was not going to be meeting regularly on Sundays and that Solas was to be their main focus. That left us in an odd situation. Ethos wasn’t doing the Sunday morning deal (probably won’t for a while…Sunday morning that is), and if NV [...]
It’s been a year…Wait, it’s been a year!?! (part 2)
- March
- 9
- 2008
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New Vintage. So another aspect of our time here over the past year in Seattle was our involvement with some communities of faith (a.k.a. Churches). Our plan coming out here was to intern with New Vintage for a year while working on the foundation for Ethos. Then we would slowly phase out and focus full [...]
It’s been a year…Wait, it’s been a year!?! (part 1)
- February
- 27
- 2008
Wow, I like kind of dropped off the map there for a bit didn’t I? How rude of me. Sorry about that. I’ve been a bit busy and rather unmotivated lately…a disastrous combination I assure you for maintaining a well updated blog. We’ve been looking at the future and having to decide on courses of [...]
I actually like to read…
- November
- 10
- 2007
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…despite the nearly a decade and a half of higher education. In the spring of 1993 I took my first college course. It was English 101 at Howard County Community College. I went to several classes, even took a test or too. Then promptly dropped the thing. I just wasn’t quite ready to leap into [...]
Halloween is my Favorite Holiday…
- October
- 30
- 2007
…no really it is…honest. I know, I know, I’m like a Pastory type person and when asked which day set aside for celebration is my favorite, I should recount my love for one of the other more popular kids on the block. How about Christmas? After all isn’t it the birthday of our Savior Jesus [...]
Activism is not optional…
- October
- 18
- 2007
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…well at least for us that is. We are in the midst of planning an up and coming community discussion night at one of my favorite spots for Ethos. One of our…things…for Ethos…not really sure what to call it, not a mission statement (that comes from Jesus directly, and doesn’t really need my help), or a [...]