A quick update for July 2026
Bikes, Ordination, Home Renovation, & Community Center
Community is one of the few things that both evolution and creation agree on.
We need each other – and whether you think that we were created with that desire and ability OR that we evolved it as a survival instinct… it is essential.
Book Recommendation: The 10,000 Year Explosion
Integrity, accountability and internal health are all important.
But there seems to be two different ways of approaching it – evangelicals do an outside/in direction and mainline folks take more of an inside/out approach.
Let me know your thoughts.
Joy is a bird (poem) as a framing metaphor works – especially in the 3rd week of Advent where ‘joy’ is the theme.
Read the poem here: https://powerpoetry.org/poems/joy-bird
InAction Is Not An Option
An Encouragement and An Exhortation today
Tell me what you think of ‘the list’ or of the 3 M’s
I’m interested in your feedback
Day 13 encourages us to “be as wise as serpents and gentle as doves”.
This involves us not have a reaction – but a reason for ‘why we do what we do’.
Here are my book recommendations:
Day 12 introduces ‘anticipatory obedience’ and that brings up religious trauma – the death of James Dobson and his Focus on the Family – and the potentially a cultural phenomenon.
Don’t underestimate the power of anticipatory obedience.
The author brings up ‘privilege’ which being used in academic circles (but has largely fallen into disuse in the popular discourse). That word causes confusion for some because they don’t see how they have benefited or feel that they have been very successful if the table – in fact – leans in their direction.
So here are a couple of alternative, and hopefully helpful, ways of thinking about it AND why it might be beneficial to you and those around you.ere
Day 10 encourages us ‘don’t give up space’.
There is no better book or resource that I could point you toward that “Making Room For Leadership: Power, Space & Influence” by MaryKate Morse.
Bo Sanders: Public Theology 