A friend tipped me off to an interesting interview with Alain de Botton regarding his new book Religion for Atheists. I have not read it yet, so I can’t offer a review. However, I was intrigued by Botton’s defense of rituals. He says, The secular world tends to trust that if we have good ideas, [...]
Reintroducing Me to My Father (and vice versa)
Last night I got a gift on my way to bed. My father sent me a rough draft of the piece he wrote for the lent meditation on Wednesday. I wasn’t expecting him to send it to me in advance but after reading it, I’m glad he did. Each week the two of us will [...]
Teeny Tiny Concerts and Ash Wednesday Worship
At Downtown Church our ideas typically outnumber our resources at a rate of 10/1. For example, with one full time videographer we could make 10 videos each week. Or if we had one trailer to store our worship equipment we’d deploy a 10 piece platform to use each Sunday. You get the idea. But sometimes, [...]
