Painfully Hopeful

I’m a Slacker

Over the Summer the crew from the Theotek podcast introduced me to Slack. It quickly became our go to means for collaboration, discussion, and generally being a nuisance to each other. In fact, I loved it so much I introduced it to the region team for The American Baptist Churches of New Jersey, and in…

Unpacking a Nightime Stroll

I’ve been wanting to return to my “unpacking” posts ever since NaNoWriMo ended, but just haven’t had the time or energy. I finally have some time to breathe, so today “unpacking” returns. A lot has gone on in the journey since I last worked with a segment like this, but this final turn toward The…

Fiction Tuesday – A Walk in the Dark

Today is Fiction Tuesday! If you’d like to catch up on this story, Welcome to the Valleys, the first section can be found at this link The Riverside guard, Steve, led their party through several back alleys and short streets on the way to their animals. Between the mist of the rain and the sharp…

A Holiday Haiku

The holidays come Parties, full schedules, travel Is it over yet? I don’t make it much of a secret that the “Holiday Season” is not my favorite time of the year. The sardonic way Christians go about “keeping Christ in Christmas” is part of my reasoning for this. If I have one more Christian tell…

Rejoice

The third Sunday of Advent is typically a celebration of Joy. This Sunday the pink candle is lit, partially leading to its name “Rose Sunday.” 1. It’s a rough fall for the world, and so I must admit writing a sermon this week seemed rather daunting. After some meditation on Scripture I managed to write…

Proud Papa

This past Thursday and Friday I was able to attend two events in which my children were participating. The first was our school’s winter concert, where my son is a percussionist in one of the bands. The second was a local production of Shrek Jr. with a nearby theatre troop. As I sat in the…