Communication
All Saints has the opportunity to improve our communication to the congregation (and beyond). At least, that’s one way to put it. More often than not, the opportunity to communicate well feels more like a challenge; and a significant one…
Piedras Negras, Mexico
I forget the little things. And sometimes the truth about the little things is that they’re really big. Worship. Work. Service. Community. Rest. We have these simple elements in our lives that we (read: I) either take for granted or…
Over the Rhine
A year ago, I was granted the privilege of interviewing Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine. Armed with a notebook, a small recorder, two nice bottles of wine (a thank you gift), and a friend/photographer (Stanton Newman), we spoke for…
Everywhere and nowhere
I’m not that old. Some would even say young. Just turned 33. And yet I was a junior in college when I sent my first email. Around that time, a close friend explained that it was possible to see images…
Why debates are a good idea (and a bad idea, too)
Some debates never end. Most of the endless ones are pointless, too. Aggies or Longhorns? County Line or Rudy’s? Hymns or praise songs? Momo’s or Cactus Café? In our heads we care about them, but deep down in our hearts,…
Birth of the Cool
Why does it always take visitors coming in town to get me out to see something cool? I always talk about going to see art shows or hear music but then end up just walking my dog, sitting on the…
Seven Stanzas at Easter
Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each soft Spring…