Category Archives: Relationship

Low Anxiety Evangelism

Reading my own words in the last post made me nervous.  Evangelism scares me.  The very word still makes my spine sort of wiggle against the back of my chair.  I know this is specific to my odd liberal culture.  On NPR, in the New Yorker, and in most of the Episcopal Church “evangelism” isContinueContinue reading “Low Anxiety Evangelism”

Flaming Gorge

June 26-30 I spent with good friends from high school in Flaming Gorge, Utah.  This has become a bit of a ritual journey for our group.  We spent 4-5 days jumping off of cliffs, eating amazing food (thanks largely to the women-folk my guy friends have accumulated), and discussing theology and politics around the campfire underContinueContinue reading “Flaming Gorge”

Incarnation and beginnings

Sermon preached Dec. 27 at St Barnabas Church, Denver, CO How does it begin for you? Is there a moment that radically changes your narrative, the story of your life with God? “In the beginning,” these are the words that start the Gospel of John. “In the beginning.” John starts at the beginning because heContinueContinue reading “Incarnation and beginnings”