Living a long obedience in the same direction | Pastor of Formation @christchurchdav
Northern California
Joined January 2009
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"More than 4,000 people have died of drug overdoses in San Francisco since 2020, mostly from fentanyl, far more than those who died of Covid-19, homicides and car crashes combined during the same time span." @nytimes
Lord, have mercy.
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"Parenthood is not an exact science, but a vexed privilege and a blessed trial, absolutely necessary and not altogether possible."
— Wendell Berry, Family Work
My favorite single sentence on parenthood I've ever read.
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Delighted to have an essay on one of the great philosophers and essayists of the twentieth century, Leszek Kołakowski, in the excellent @PorticoQtrly. On modernity, Marxism, and the merits of inconsistency. Link in the next tweet.
One of the things that doesn't come across watching a World Cup match on TV: the absolute unity of the entire stadium boo-ing the hydration break...
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The various pressures, economic and otherwise, to fast-track seminary students for ordained ministry right when the church is clamoring for catechesis is a potential disaster.
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I've been concerned about the way online personalities are shifting expectations about politics and the pulpit. I wrote some reflections for @BetweenTimesX
How should your pastor faithfully weigh in on the political issues of the day, if at all? Jared Michelson on influencers, the pulpit, and why pastoral restraint may be the very thing that preserves the church's moral authority.
Read now on Between Times:
between-times.co.uk/traditio…
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JIM KIRK, #CRCSYNOD HERO.
"We should celebrate the Lord's Supper weekly."
"I was ordained in the SBC in 1975. I think they forget there were hundreds of us. Hundreds." She said it with gravitas and grace, with an earnestness for me to understand.
God bless the elders. Deeply moving conversation with a woman on our way to Tarsus.
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Subscribe to this new podcast on faith and public life. Hosted by my friend Jasper who is interviewing contributors to our journal, Between Times, digging deeper into the stories behind their contributors and pressing questions folks have raised. We chat here about ‘tolerance’
Introducing the Between Times Podcast. A new companion to the journal where we sit down with the authors behind our articles.
First episode live now, with Jared Michelson on his article exploring tolerance, on all podcast platforms and our website:
between-times.co.uk/podcast/
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There are planty of arguments in favor of traditional liturgy, but each week, a child with autism and severe speech limitations looks me in the eye and says "Peace be with you" and that might be one of the best.
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Dear @CRCNA,
Commemorate the Ascension this week; first, because it is, as Calvin put it, "the chiefest portion of our faith;" second, because it keeps you attached to the historic and global church; third, to avoid violating our own church order.
Warmly,
Eric
Reading @PorticoQtrly—it may not fill the Books & Culture shaped hole in my heart, but it's the closest I've felt to that particular delight in a long time.
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My latest in the Banner in which I write about worship, liturgy, mission, hospitality, and evangelism and why those are more compatible than many well-seasoned and well-intentioned Christians often assume.
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Referenced a @millinerd piece on the Precious Moments Chapel in a sermon weeks ago. Came into my office today (April Fool's) to this 😂🤣
"Can we do better? Can we have conversations about gender, vocation, and the life of the church without it being beset by suspicion, anxiety, and anger? I really hope so." @UnhurriedChase
I hope so, too!
Why Evangelical Gender Discourse Is Unserious
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You may have given up bourbon for Lent, at least you can read about it. Here’s an older piece on Thomas Merton’s mysticism compared to the distillation process. imagejournal.org/article/bec…