Q & A Tuesday Wrap-Up: Week Four
There are a lot of words in this wrap-up — and most of them are from all of you! What a rich conversation we’ve had this week! Thank you all for your insights and your articulate, kind responses to...
View ArticleQ & A: Week Five – Living Loved
Welcome to week five in a series of longish reflections on some of life’s harder questions. We’re having a rich conversation in this space and I am grateful. Last week opened the door to a...
View ArticleQ & A Tuesday (well, Wednesday!) Wrap-Up: Week Five
This fuzzy version of a photo of mine sort of sums up this week. Not one I want to remember, to tell you the truth. And no, I have not missed the irony of such a week when immersed in a series that has...
View ArticleQ & A: Week Six – Holding the Reins Lightly
This week’s ‘Living the Question:’ How do I make all the pieces fit? Next week’s Question: Why do bad things happen to good people? Links to each post in this series can be found in the introductory...
View ArticleQ & A: Tuesday Wrap-Up – Week Six
In the midst of nausea and exhaustion this week, I was delighted to see some newcomers joining their posts to the link-up and to meet a couple of new folks in the comments section, too. It has been...
View ArticleQ & A: Week Seven — The Question without Answers
I’ve been praying about this week’s question for days. It sits at the center of so many struggles, for me and for people I love — indeed, for just about everyone who takes their faith seriously. My...
View ArticleQ & A — Tuesday Wrap-Up: Week Seven
What an amazing collection of words have flown around the blogosphere this week, just here, in our small corner! Thanks to each of you who linked a post on this week’s question — which was: Why do bad...
View ArticleHow the Bible Reads Us
Most of you know that I an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, a denomination in the free church tradition, with many ties to both Lutheranism and Methodism. This is a paper submitted...
View ArticleQ & A: Week Eight — The Book of Love
We have arrived at the end of the journey, this exploratory willingness to sit in the middle of the hard questions and LIVE them a little. You’ll notice that I’ve picked up the surfing image once...
View ArticleQ & A: Tuesday Wrap-Up: Week Eight
Somehow this picture from my surfing cache seems to capture our little band, hanging out together in the water, encouraging one another to go deeper! As I read through the linked posts this week, and...
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