Surrounded by coffee, waffles, and the buzzing of Spencer's Coffee, our campus ministry peer minister and I are reading through Parker Palmer's book, Let Your Life Speak, together, and we talk about what struck us in this week's readings. We sat down to for our first book chat and my peer minster highlighted the way in... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite classes in seminary was Readings in Christian Spirituality; it was a class in which we read one text a week from a different notable Christian writer. We started that cold January day all the way in the 3rd century, and worked our way through to the present as winter faded into... Continue Reading →
We wake and mourn once again. This cycle has seemed to mark our common life together more often than any of us wish it would; the school shootings blend together and that is as offensive to the lives lost as it is to the truth that this should never feel normal. There will be many... Continue Reading →
One of my biggest tasks when I was working as a chaplain in the hospital was to hold space. The hospital is a place a efficiency; the hospital room is not designed for comfort not for a long term stay. Conversations that happen in a hospital are also efficiency driven, as they should be. When... Continue Reading →
My favorite kind of beginnings are ones that are a return to what I've already done. I love to have a fresh start without having to figure out how to navigate a new system or place; it is the best of both navigating a system you already know, but also getting to start with a... Continue Reading →
We wake and mourn once again. This cycle has seemed to mark our common life together more often than any of us wish it would; the mass shootings blend together and that is as offensive to the lives lost as it is to the truth that this should never feel normal. There will be many... Continue Reading →
There is an unfortunate side of my personality that, when approached with a simple challenge or exasperatingly easy problem, I think to myself, "that's stupid, I'm not doing it." As if when something isn't challenging, it isn't worth my time or effort. When I'm faced with a difficult problem or a complex, interpersonal issue with... Continue Reading →
At a time in which prayer was especially challenging, I found the joy of hiking. When the well from which I draw my prayers wasn't dried up, the words of my prayers were hostile; I was overwhelmed and angry, and while I wasn't sure God's role in it all, I knew in some ways, God... Continue Reading →
When I look out at the world, there are things that I assume to be true. Having a fairly high anthropology, I'm pretty convicted in the general goodness of humanity, but I also lament the fact that this innate goodness is rarely our dominant narrative as a society. When I look out at the world,... Continue Reading →
As I turned on my car to head to the gym this morning, the radio DJs were in the middle of reading a list of "Millennial worries". Put out by Business Insider, the article that they were referencing, "The 10 most serious problems in the world, according to millennials," doesn't surprise me; it's a list... Continue Reading →
Episcopal Campus Ministry at WKU 