It’s now just a little over 36 hours since I arrived home from an amazing adventure to spend some time and hopefully leak a little bit of Jesus into the lives of a group of teenage orphans in the city of Ivanovo in north-central Russia. Even now it’s difficult to articulate the experience of being … Continue reading From Russia With Love Part 2: Love Wins (with a little help from a hockey fan)
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Ivanovo my love
I've been blessed to spend the past five days in one of the most interesting cities I've ever seen among some of the most incredible and beautiful people I've ever known. This poem is for each of them and all of them and the city that gave them to me. She contradicts herself at every … Continue reading Ivanovo my love
From Russia with Love Part 1: A study in contradictions
This morning I was awakened before 6am by the sound of a Russian road crew working to patch a semi-paved street outside my hotel window. It gave me my first bit of free time since arriving in Ivanovo to write a brief report on this trip for you faithful followers of The Awesomeness Conspiracy. It … Continue reading From Russia with Love Part 1: A study in contradictions
A Mother’s Day Letter from the Archives
Since today is Mother's Day, and since I've fallen behind on new content here at The Awesomeness Conspiracy, I decided to dig into the archives and re-post an article from Mother's Day 2011. I wrote the following "Letter To Mom" as a sermon I delivered to the congregation at First United Methodist Church in Williamstown, … Continue reading A Mother’s Day Letter from the Archives
Why supporting gay rights is the most Christian thing I can do
There’s a story in the Bible where Jesus talks about a field where a man planted a crop of wheat. While he was sleeping, an enemy snuck into the field and planted weeds. The wheat and the weeds grew together, intermingled. The man’s servants offered to pick through the field and remove all the weeds. … Continue reading Why supporting gay rights is the most Christian thing I can do
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