I woke up this morning in the remote town of Samos. I stayed across from a gorgeous monastery: After some hours of wet morning walking I found myself in falling apart little town with mud streets that could be the set for a medieval horror movie (if such a film existed.) I followed the Camino […]
It takes me up to 30 minutes to prepare my feet each morning. Often I am sitting in the dark, surrounded by a dozen beds, whose inhabitants are in various states of consciousness. Each movement is slow and deliberate, releasing the smallest of sounds, I… inspect, clean, massage, prepare, trim, medicate, bandage, wrap, limit friction, […]
I’ve passed so, so many graveyards along the Camino… …as well as all the tombs in churches and the memorials to pilgrims who died along the Camino. That’s a lot of death to witness… and to process… My nephew, who died of cancer when he was only four, is my symbolic companion along the Way; […]
Hey friends, You have probably heard that I am leaving to walk the Camino de Santiago. I fly out on Saturday (April 28th) and I will be gone 6 weeks. This is a huge undertaking. I have had a ridiculously diverse life, but I have never experienced anything close to this. I am amazingly thankful […]
Sarah Thebarge has been a friend and co-conspirator for a better world and a truer faith. We have shared the stage together and she has been a multiple times guest on my web-series “Off The Highway.” Well, when we launched the “Generous Life Project” (funded by PushPay) last year, I knew that I wanted to […]
This last year the Yale Center for Faith and Culture invited me to campus to discuss secularism and the Jesus-Way. I had a chance to share the stage with thoughtful secularists like Tom Krattenmaker (author of The Evangelicals You Don’t Know) and Chris Stedman (author of Faitheist). There were many thrilling conversations and the experience as a […]
This past weekend, I was invited to share at Bridge City Community Church (http://www.bethechurch.net) in SE Portland. Here are the thoughts that I shared… The beginning of my public meditation was the unexplainable violence in Paris last week. My out loud thoughts surfed through stories from my youth, the harmful limitations that church-speak perpetrates upon […]
Here is a talk that I gave this week to the students of Warner Pacific College here in Portland, OR. I hope you enjoy it. Click here:
Well, in case you missed it, this week has been dedicated to the thoughts and imaginations of Mark Scandrette (MarkScandrette.com), who is, among other things, the director of ReImagine (reimagine.org.) Take a moment, if you haven’t already, to watch these episodes of off the highway. We cover topics as diverse as imagination, innovation, experimentation and […]
