Category: Faith
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Pro Wrestling Goes to Church Part II
This is Part II of a reflection on Pro-Wrestling and Church. Part I focussed on Faith and Truth. This part focuses on the practical aspects of community. Execution/Liturgy I went to an Ash Wednesday Service recently at a Catholic Church. I like Ash Wednesday and as I grow older the more I like traditions. I…
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Pro-Wrestling Goes to Church Part I
I’ve wanted to write something like this for a decade and maybe I have. It’s hard to keep track of 323 blog entries. But I’ve wanted to write about how the world of professional wrestling internal and external operate as an at times ideal version on the Church. Now I know what you might be…
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The Night We Walked on Water
Impetuosity is a word I have often heard associated with Peter. It is a word that would seem to accurately describe James and John (the Sons of Thunder) when their inclination was to call fire down from Heaven to burn a city. I think that impetuosity has two sides. Often we are so preoccupied with…
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Sing with what we Got: Habakkuk 3
What we have in Christ is so much more than what we’ve lost. This might be hard to believe, harder to feel, and sometimes we are not at all able to see it, perhaps even moreso now in this season. Which means now more than ever remembering and hearing what God has done is so…
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Mr. Rogers Cat Stevens and Bosco the Bear
“Well I left my happy home to see what I could find out I left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out Well, I hit the rowdy road and many kinds I met there Many stories told me of the way to get there” Saw that Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers…
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Last Call: On Grief and Time
When someone my age dies, grief comes from all angles: from parents, from siblings, from friends, from children. The older ones carried the deceased as far as they could in the ways they knew how. The ones younger expected to be carried, guided, molded. But when someone…
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The Tender Year
I have now lived in Charleston, SC for a full year. I have approximately 3 weeks left of my residency. Several weeks ago, I was praying on the beach about my future, my next step in the next season. And it was such an uncertain time of prayer. This time last year I knew what…
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The God and the Ghost of Present Christmas
I read an Instagram post by Craig Groeschel about Christmas being a magnifier today. (For those of you who don’t know who Craig Groeschel is, he’s one of those muscular pastors that talks about how he doesn’t have time to dress himself in the morning) The intent of his post was to state how the…
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Lord of the Bowel Movement
Yesterday was monumental. I prayed with a 92 year-old-woman who had a bowel movement in her bed, specifically a poop, immediately after I prayed for her. I didn’t know it right away. A nurse who came into the room shortly after me, reported back and thanked me. Apparently, they had been waiting for the patient…
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Willing But So Weak
I had one of those deathbed Jesus moments last week. I was with a patient while they died whom was reconciled to God the week before. I did not save the man, all I did was remind him that God was willing to forgive him because of the work of Jesus Christ. All I could…
The Reconstructed 