Category Archives: Weekly Report

In my former life, as a composition prof, I used to emphasize to my students the importance of knowing the answers to the following questions: Who’s your reader? What’s your purpose? All writers, I would tell them, have a reader … Continue reading →

My friend Paul has this theory* that if you squint at the culture, you can get a pretty good idea of where the church will be in 20 years. His theory, put simply, is that the church is 20 years … Continue reading →

If you’ve already read the Holy Cow! post, you know that we doubled back on Kaleo this week. So even though Kaleo had the morning service, it’s week 26a because it has already been counted as one of the 52. … Continue reading →

I think preachers, like most teachers, have somewhere between 1-3 good sermons in them (teachers have 1-3 really good lessons). In the grander scheme of possible sermons, “The Kingdom of God is Here” ranks pretty high in my book, right … Continue reading →

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox is about the prettiest church we’ve been to this year. This is due, at least in part, to the stained glass, the dome, and the icons in the sanctuary. Farmergirl was a little weirded out by … Continue reading →

“What musical is this from?” Elaine whispered to me, as we sang Let There Be Peace on Earth (And Let It Begin With Me) toward the end of today’s service. Heck, I don’t know. I often misidentify songs from musicals … Continue reading →

Ahh, the places our meanderings take us. Our ending up at Crosswalk Community Church this morning started with Farmergirl and I going to Kaleo without Michael (he was on the Cursillo weekend), and me poking around, looking at the “Emergent/Emerging” … Continue reading →

Churches, perhaps more than any other institution or group, say “goodbye” poorly. It’s difficult to leave a church if you’re not also leaving town, because there’s inevitably feelings of betrayal* and rejection. It’s difficult to make transitions in personnel. It’s … Continue reading →

Teresa told me I ought to being my tambourine to the Valley Open Bible Church this morning. But I would have been alone in my tambourine beating (shaking? what is it that one does to the/ with the tambourine?) had … Continue reading →

Farmergirl confessed that after communion and the offertory followed directly on the heels of the opening worship music at Real Life Ministries, she thought we might be at a sermon-less church. I don’t know if such a thing exists (a … Continue reading →