Faith Mending

03/21/2023

Sharing some thoughts on women in ministry and the current discussion around this issue.

Women in Ministry

02/18/2023

Some evening thoughts on dried out churches and new revivals.

late night reflections

11/08/2022

Today is the day to get out and vote. Please go vote.
https://mending.substack.com/p/go-vote?sd=pf

09/20/2022

"Holding a grudge is letting a person live rent free in your head."
What does it mean for us when we forgive and open up new space for healing and growth? It means we can move forward, growing beyond old wounds.

My last entry was a little on the pessimistic side. Forgiveness is more complicated than what I learned in Sunday School. Finding a cohesive theology of forgiveness can be hard. However, this week we also want to look at the psychological side of forgiveness. In particular, what does forgiveness do....

09/16/2022

Sometimes forgiveness is complicated. Sometimes we make it harder than it needs to be. What would it look like to live in a world that practiced more forgiveness?

Thoughts with lots of questions

09/14/2022

Forgiveness is hard. Forgiving others is one thing. Forgiving our old self...that's something else.

I was talking with a friend the other day about how little time I actually spend connecting with people from my past. I don’t really talk much to people from high school; I occasionally connect with people from college; they’re a few people from seminary, none from the school of social work, a c...

09/14/2022

We simply can’t underestimate the impact that a real sense of forgiveness can have on our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual lives. And yet, we often just don’t do it.

I was talking with a friend the other day about how little time I actually spend connecting with people from my past. I don’t really talk much to people from high school; I occasionally connect with people from college; they’re a few people from seminary, none from the school of social work, a c...

09/10/2022

We all struggle with forgiveness in different ways. How to forgive others is talked about often. How to forgive ourselves, is a whole other story. Forgiveness can be complex and relearning the messages we learned around it is complicated too.

I get it wrong all the time. My mind can be a terrible place to inhabit when those intrusive moments of relational failure walk around as though they own the place. I feel lucky that it isn’t a constant stream of “should’ves”, “could’ves”, and “can’t believe you did thats.”

09/02/2022

A little more on forgiveness from a New Testament perspective. Forgiveness can me walking into some uncomfortable realities but that's what makes it so powerful.

As I was watching the whole uproar over loan forgiveness, a pastor friend shared what was coming up in the lectionary for August 28. If you’re not familiar with the lectionary, the passages are chosen many years in advance. So this isn’t something someone just decided to use to address this issu...

08/30/2022

Some thoughts on forgiveness. OT today, NT on Thursday.

The convenient things we forget about the Bible

08/17/2022

We're going deep into grief. A look at the five steps of grief and how they are both true and misunderstood.

https://mending.substack.com/p/the-steps-of-grief?sd=pf

08/11/2022

It's really easy to get stuck in deconstruction. It's easy to feel like we'll never get out. But you will. It may take time. Hang in there.
https://mending.substack.com/p/like-the-others-stuck-in-the-dark?sd=pf