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And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, onContinue reading “Palm Sunday: Preparing to Encounter the Death and the Resurrecction”

It is often said that in our rush to get to the goodness of Resurrection Sunday we have a tendency to want to move quickly past Good Friday, forgetting that we cannot arrive fully at the Resurrection without first understanding the nature of this Friday that we call good. In reading through the story ofContinue reading “Rereading the Easter Story: How The Triumphal Entry Helps Us Understand the Death and Ressurection”

Remembering is an act of storytelling,  Robert Nash Back at the turn of the calendar year I started to give some intentional focus to a research project on the topic of memory that I had been sitting on for quite some time. The research project was inspired by a particular experience I had years agoContinue reading “Irrational People, Irrational Minds: The Unreliability of Memory and the Practice of Meaning Making”

    Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”—Madeleine L’Engle When I first started writing in this space it was an attempt to try and deal with some of the great anxiety I was feeling and experiencing over turning 40. Anxiety is something I have wrestled with my whole life.Continue reading “Chasing the Moon: The Crippling Nature of Anxiety and the Healing Power of the Imagination”

Film A one man show written together along with his audience. An emotional and conceptual magic trick that proves all too real. A love letter to all those who struggle with knowing who they are, their value and their worth. And a gift to those struggling with mental illness, depression or just general feelings of lostness,Continue reading “Month in Review: Memorable Reads, Watches and Listens For February 2021”

It has been over 30 years since I saw the film the Neverending Story, and, full confession, I was not aware that it was based on a book. Stumbling across the novel brought back fond memories of the story, and ignited my desire to get aquainted with the source material (followed up by a rewatchContinue reading “The Neverending Story and the Faith-filled Imagination”

20He went into the house. A crowd gathered again, so that they couldn’t even have a meal. 21When his family heard it, they came to restrain him. ‘He’s out of his mind,’ they said. 22Experts who had come from Jerusalem were saying, ‘He is possessed by Beelzebul! He casts out demons by the prince ofContinue reading “Blasphemy of the Spirit, the Work of the Accuser and Making Sense of the Unpardonable Sin (Mark 3:20-35)”

Happy Sunday everyone. I had a real epiphany this morning reading through a portion of Mark’s Gospel. It comes from Mark Chapter 4 and the Parable of the Sower. Again he began to teach beside the sea. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the sea andContinue reading “Participation in the Kingdom of God: A Fresh Reading of the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4)”

I decided to pen this blog post not necessarily to expand on the tough subject of God’s “Impassibility”, but to document some of what I have been encountering lately and offer some of my own reflections on why I find discussions like this to be more frustrating than helpful. Why am I specifically concerned withContinue reading “N.T Wright, God’s Impassibility and the Problem of Theological Rhetoric”

FILM 1. Two of my hands down favorite watches- Italy’s Martin Eden (2019), part love story between cynic and idealist, and part love letter to Italy, the film is an exploration of the relationship between art and meaning with an emphasis on given meaning from which we are then able to create the story ofContinue reading “Month in Review: Memborable January Reads, Listens and Views”