Imagine, part 4

You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” –Talking Heads So this is the last assignment for my Imagine group. Describe your faith journey as an adult, age 27+. I will break this post into at least two segments. Well the thing that had the biggest impact on my faith at age 27 […]

Imagine, part 3

Four Years in the Desert Young adulthood kicked off with the end of college. By some miracle, I graduated from Bethany on time with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. I wanted to go to grad school to become a therapist, but my student loan dept (modest by today’s standards) freaked me out. I needed a […]

Thought Crimes

I went to a small Bible College with an enrollment of roughly 500. It was a conservative college right smack in the middle of Santa Cruz County. To say that our neighbors did not share our world view would be a gross understatement. We used to joke about ourselves saying that we lived in the […]

Mixed Bag

This is going to be one of those postings where I just start writing until something clicks. It may just be random mush. I just found out that one of my professors is college died suddenly. He had heart surgery on Friday to remove a benign tumor. I am not sure what happened, but apparently […]

Liturgical Spin Cycle

Growing up Pentecostal, the faith was focused on experience. Emotional ecstasy was the goal of worship. About my junior year of college (at a Pentecostal school), a friend of mine invited me to go to church with him. I was a drama geek at the time and he was the cool rogue guy who was […]