church – Meanderings

Adulting like a Christian: What did you just say?

Pastors, staff, lay leaders, long-time congregants all use church terms as if they learned them in the nursery. And some of them did. It seems that it does not occur to them that the sentence they just said sounds strange.

Unity and Division

I heard a quote that I’ve been carrying around, “The opposite of division is not unity, it’s collaboration”.

Beliefs and other things you should know before reading

A little about my background. I come from a restoration movement background and attended a restoration movement university for my Master’s Degree in pastoral leadership. I currently work in a large church and serve as a chaplain. My undergrad was from a Midwest liberal arts college. My politics are to the left, considerably so forContinue reading “Beliefs and other things you should know before reading”