My Canterbury Tale, Part Three
It wasn’t the pep rally that I had come to expect from Evangelical worship services. There were simply the prayers of the saints tending my wounds and the body and blood of Christ nourishing my soul.
Category: Friends
My Canterbury Tale, Part Two
In many of my conversations, the prayerbook was consistently lauded as a steady, biblically-sound guide. Now, with my mind failing, it became my life-preserver.
My Canterbury Tale, Part One
How did a low-church Baptist boy from the North Georgia mountains ever end up in a liturgical tradition like Anglicanism?
The Isles | One Year Later
I can’t believe it has been a year since my friend Kyle and I packed our bags and made the transatlantic journey to Ireland and England. In many ways, it feels like just a few days since I was last walking the streets of the cities I so quickly came to love.
The Isles | What I Take Home
When you take a trip, you hope to bring something back with you — to somehow be changed by your experience… Ultimately, what I took from my visit to Ireland was a bigger, broader view of three things: the world, the Church, and myself.
The Isles | Transcendence
Transcendence describes something that transports us beyond our physical existence, something whose whole is on another spiritual plane than the sum of its parts.
The Isles | Walking Together
As any hobbit knows, much of the joy of a good day’s walk comes from the friends who travel by your side.
The Isles | Rivers of Change
As I walked along the banks of the River Liffey on the last day of my journey, I think all the energy of the ancient cities I had visited––London, Oxford, and Dublin––began to course their way into me.
I Am Scout
When I return to my hometown, I realize I am a fish out of water. I recognize the sights, the sounds, and the flavors, but they are no longer mine. There is an aesthetic, verbal, and all-around cultural disconnect. The experience is bittersweet.
Advent 4: The Reconciler
In the story of redemption, the grievance is from one direction and the reconciliation from the other.
On Going to Seminary
I graduated from seminary almost four years ago now. I still live in the city where my seminary is, and I even work full-time at the school. Because of this, … Continue reading On Going to Seminary
The Artist-Pastor Identity Crisis, Part 2
I was talking with a coworker recently. An English major when he was in college who loves writing stories and reading Dostoevsky, he is now studying at the seminary in … Continue reading The Artist-Pastor Identity Crisis, Part 2
