Out Pastors

10/09/2023

POETRY + PROSE + POLITICS: Pro-democracy, Pro-civil discourse, Pro-decency

08/24/2023

07/26/2023

We are all capable of thinking we are the “right ones” with the “right” interpretation. Humility is so very elusive…

I was seventeen in 1988, and Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ had just landed in theaters. I had just started getting into his filmography with

02/12/2023

Pondering…

12/17/2022

What do you think of this? What I have seen is a small church eventually ties to add all the dimensions of a big church… as most still want all the extras a big church provides.

Rebekah Simon-Peter believes five P’s — people, prayer, provision, partnership, and presence — are key to the sustainability of smaller churches.

11/03/2022

I want neither a blood’n’guts religion that would make Clint Eastwood, not Jesus, our hero, nor a speculative religion that would imprison the Gospel in the halls of academia, nor a noisy, feel-good religion that is a naked appeal to emotion. I long for passion, intelligence, and compassion in a Church without ostentation, gently beckoning to the world to come and enjoy the peace and unity we possess because of the Spirit in our midst. – Brennan Manning