At our family festival last night, Heather challenged me to a joust. I ended up in big trouble. It was an accident of course. I would never intentionally do anything to get me in such hot water with my beloved. It was a tremendous event by the way.

I’ve been listening to American Gospel by John Meacham and thoroughly enjoying it.
He makes the case that the relationship between church and state, religion and politics, and Christianity and the faith of the Founding Fathers is like most things in history: more complex and nuanced than most people want to believe.
He contends that […]

I’m in the process of switching over to wordpress. I’m tired of Blogger’s sluggishness and comment difficulty. That and over a year ago Blogger promised to send me a hoodie for my loyalty and never did.

I wrapped up a very productive week of study yesterday and then drove to Dallas last night. Now I’m just outside of Ft. Worth at Heather’s parents’ house. Tomorrow we’ll head on to Abilene for the ACU Lectures. I haven’t been to these lectures in almost 10 years. I’ve heard they’ve […]

I spent yesterday working through “The Resurrection of the Son of God.” By “working through,” I don’t mean that I read every word on every page, but I did acquaint myself with the overall shape of Wright’s argument until I felt I had a sufficient understanding of it. Today I’ll dive back into […]

Today I’ll be spending some time in N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God.

It’s been a good week. I was able to get a lot of things done that needed to be done. I had a series of very encouraging meetings regarding the shape of future ministry efforts at Garnett. I finished up a mini-series on hospitality this morning that I thought went pretty well. […]

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Today I’m eating everything in sight.
Tomorrow I’ll be saying goodbye to candy and bread until Easter.

Here’s what we’re doing in the Wednesday night class I teach.
We begin with about ten minutes of introductory conversation/teaching. This usually has something to do with contemplative prayer or “lectio divina.” It’s part history lesson and part instruction.
Then we spend fifteen minutes in contemplative prayer/silence. I turn down the lights and we […]