A few months ago I moved my blog roll to a specific page instead of on the sidebar of the blog (you can find that under “links”). I just felt like the sidebar was distracting you, the reader, away from what was most important. That being the content of the posts of course. It has [...]

Part One // A Culture of Confession As I continued to think about my post from last Thursday (A Culture of Confession) I started to think about how it all relates to our view of salvation. In our culture salvation has become another one of our quick fix schemes. We view salvation as a stamp [...]

This has to be the weirdest week of US Open golf that I’ve ever watched, and I’ve watched a lot of US Open golf. It is quite possible that the finish could be on Monday or Tuesday instead of the usual Sunday finish. And people say it rains a lot in Oregon… I start my [...]

Matthew Perryman Jones and Katie Herzig are two of my favorite artists. I discovered them on Noisetrade, a website that all of you should be going to in order to discover new music. Send an email to 5 friends and get a free album. It is that easy. This week I discovered that they happened [...]

I woke up around 8am, like usual. Came downstairs. Decided to read through the morning emails and such. The morning wasn’t really much different than others. As I was reading through a comment on my most recent blog post (here is that post), something was different. Someone was correcting what he felt like was a [...]

My favorite moment in church ministry was April 5th of this year. During a few silent moments during the opening of the church service, we had people anonymously write their personal confessions on a piece of paper. We collected all these writings and selected a good amount of them to be read aloud during Communion. [...]