Slow Repair Posts

Every day there is a new video, piece of audio, or article that ignites a new controversy for the next news cycle. We live in a day where advertising dollars, ratings, and special interest drive 24 hour new channels much…

Suffering can hit like a hammer or torture like slow drips of water. No matter what its form or force, suffering hurts physically and spiritually. There isn’t a person on the planet able to escape such pain. Money can’t stop…

What is the “Imago Dei”? Most of us only think of the idea of the image of God (Imago Dei) when we read the Genesis accounts of God deciding to create man in his image. Theologians spend significant amounts of…

Is the Gospel a cage that locks away our dreams? I know too many people enslaved to the word “calling.” They have a narrow definition of what the word means. To make matters worse, they are given such a definition…

There are many things I hope God makes new when he finally decides to put death in its grave and reverse the decay of this world once and for all. I can’t wait for multiple sclerosis to lose its power…

Suffering has a way of shrinking our world until it centers on the hurt. Pain streamlines a path for whatever is in our heart to quickly appear in our words and behavior. A mixture of desires for relief and demands…

We have all experienced an empty chair where there once sat a close friend or loved one.  Physical death and decay cause some places to be vacated.  Some seats go unfilled as people just move away as the natural progression…

“Trying to be an exception to the human race encourages arrogance among most of us and burnout among many of us- the two invasive fruits of having to prove that we are not flawed, that we do not need rescue…

My time in seminary has been full of surprises, some good and other not. One of the best surprises came in the form of a professor’s “off the topic” story. This professor is a well-known theologian, author, and speaker. He…