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Pray for me, will ya?

This blog entry is more or less a public service announcement…

Henri Nouwen once said, "The search for community is a deeply human search and I have felt that the ideal community…

This summer I read “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality” with Rob and others in our church who are in vocational ministry.

This last Saturday morning I ran into my friend, Reverend Liv Larsen Andrews, the pastor at Salem Lutheran Church on West Broadway in Spokane.

After listening to a sermon on Hope, one phrase eddied within me:  "a living hope." The emphasis was that this living hope was alive, "breathed…

I learned something new this year during the Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) observance: his views on racial and economic equality were not widely embraced by either the white or black church.

I have been working at Cup of Cool Water for more than 4 years. In that time I have worked with hundreds if not thousands of at risk youth. It is interesting how certain words or phrases can become so common that we can easily disconnect ourselves from…

When I was in 6th grade my small group leader at the time took me to Barnes and Noble and let me pick out my very first prayer journal. It was red and velvet and felt like the most important thing I owned at the time.

On a recent road trip, I was listening to a song called “I Am A War Machine,” by an artist known as Sontalk. It was a song I’d listened to before, but as happens often…

I just finished reading, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown.  It’s interesting to recognize the ways that her experience of blackness…

Ever since Rob’s sermon on giving last month (see immanuelspokane.org for a recording), I’ve been thinking about how we, as followers of Jesus, engage with the topic of money. As Rob brought up in his sermon, the church in the U.S. generally…

I am asked from time to time what I am reading. As most of you know, I am a pretty determined and intentional reader. Note: This post might come off as a “humble/brag” but it is just a reality – I read a lot. Sorry, if it comes off that way.

Reconciliation. What does it mean in today’s cultural milieu, one in which racial incidents are on the rise. I have been trying to use the word differently in the last bit of time…

When I started practicing the spiritual discipline of sabbath, I thought that I was just committing to a day of rest; I didn’t realize that the journey I was embarking on would be the beginning of deep inner healing…

I’m reading about five very different books right now, all very slowly, which is quite possibly the least effective reading strategy I could muster up. Somehow, though, the stars (and books) aligned this week and the overlap has been insightful…

I have to admit, when I first found out about Jarabacoa, I remember thinking how intimidating of a place it was. The Dominican Republic as a country stands at such an interesting spot in it’s history…