A couple of weeks ago via Twitter, I put out the question, "If I were to offer myself to speak to people in an education setting other than the college classroom, what would I have to offer? What would my niche be?" With so many writers, speakers, etc. the market is flooded with a lot [...]
Posts under ‘Life’
we cannot change unless we mourn
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen (p. 58). To change we must die, and if we die we must mourn. In many of our discussions surrounding the church today, the big buzzword is change. From Brian McLaren's and Phyllis Tickle [...]
finding my bliss
A few weeks ago Pastor Nar and Jules Kennedy interviewed me for the Losing My Religion Podcast! Check out my thoughts on vocation, the trinity, compassion, and the church. Give it a listen HERE! Following His Bliss Pastor Nar and this week’s co-host, Jules Kennedy, talk with Drew Tatusko as he shares his story – [...]
the thirteenth step
As one who has felt spiritually broken more times than I can remember or recall, I felt a certain camaraderie at Trans4m. It amazed me at how many in the continued development of Emergence Christianity have been abused, rejected, dehumanized, and cast out of the churches they so dearly cherished for many many years. This was not [...]
lamentation: a dying god
Ever feel like God is just not there anymore? Me too. Lately I have been feeling that absence again. This means I have felt it before. Just after 9/11 I tried to seek a call in the Newark Presbytery in the PCUSA for ordination. I was not in a pastoral position of any kind, but [...]
