presbyterianisms
structure verses interaction, is this a fair dichotomy?
For year I’ve been having conversations with friend, blogging-preacher-mom MaryAnn McKibben Dana, about worship. We were in seminary together and led many an alternative approach to preaching and liturgy. But now she is serving in a traditional context. Recently I asked her to hit me up with a question or two for this blog. She writes: My [...]
we are already lit
I posted this back in 2007, while I was still serving a church in North Atlanta as designated pastor. The poem came to mind recently as I’ve been working on my first full length book, Getting Drawn In. Its striking how we learn and re-learn things. The allusions to Moses and Pentecost seem as important [...]
Lyrics for songs
I just finished a great weekend at the Montreat College Conference playing with Rea Rea (Clemson) on Bass and Jason Peckman (Athens) on drums. They put up with a lot of seat-of-the-pants direction from me, and made it a far better weekend than it would have been were I just a guy with his acoustic [...]
