Photo by chloe s. on Unsplash The Resources To proclaim an [American] awakening is underway is to claim history – that we are in an extraordinary period of change, one brought about by lost faith, social disorientation, and cultural distortion, that will result in bringing in those who have been marginalized and create a politics whereby more … Continue reading Awakening and Resistance →

Photo by Dendy Darma Satyazi on Unsplash The Resources There's a big, long quote from Diana's book Christianity after Religion which she says is the most quoted part of the book. I am going to pull out bits of it for you, add comments and reflections and precis some parts. If you have the book … Continue reading The Three Bs →

The Resources Ten years ago, Diana Butler Bass, who is a a north American church historian, published a book called Christianity After Religion. This year she asked her publishers if they'd be interested in doing a revisit of the ideas in that book to see what had changed, whether any of her reading of the … Continue reading Awakening →

Photo by bradford zak on Unsplash At our last post related gathering, we wrestled a bit with the 'rumble' part of processing "the story I'm telling". Rumble didn't quite land as a thing we would do in relation to a story. No wonder, since when I looked up the various meanings, most of them relate … Continue reading Storying, part 2 →

Photo by Tara Winstead: https://www.pexels.com/photo/an-illustration-of-stick-people-8378752/ The Resources "The story I'm telling..." Part one of the rumble process In the first Rising Strong post I said that Brene identifies three distinct stages in the process of getting up after a fall and staying open with your whole self. The first stage is an honest reckoning with … Continue reading Ready to rumble? →

Photo by Anton Shuvalov on Unsplash The Resources Last weekend I was in Queenstown in the breathtaking beauty of the mountains and the lake and the fresh clean air. It was a working weekend, though, as I was part of a group discerning calling to ministry. In the preparations for the weekend, I was asked … Continue reading Taking a breather →

Photo by Mulyadi on Unsplash The Resources So, I know that most people go on holiday and read fiction, and I did that (Demon Copperhead pretty much broke my heart and mended it again while I was also soaking up some Fiji beauty), but I confess that I also took and read Brene Brown's Rising … Continue reading Becoming fully human →

The resources In the last week I ordered two books and I got to add three books to the catalogue of the Hewitson library. I did get pretty excited about that and I'm looking forward to all that reading and treasure hunting, but just to put it in perspective, I also ordered four different kinds … Continue reading catch the wave →

The Resources There's been a lot of nothing happening in my inner space since my enneagram retreat last year - not completely nothing, because the retreat brought up a lot of things to process - but for a long, long time, I have been a gatherer of all kinds of things. Ideas, images, experiences, metaphors, … Continue reading Form and Substance →

A bit of reflection... Here we are already into the new year, and I wonder how this solar (and now lunar) beginning again finds you? I find myself actively engaging in the inner work of embracing more deeply and fully the evolving nature of life and faith. I feel like I have the evolving faith … Continue reading An evolving faith →