Every year I try to read 50 books. The only time I actually accomplished this was 2019. Until this year, when I finished 67 books. There are two main reasons why I read so many books this year. First, I began researching the Psalms in preparation of starting my PhD in 2022. Through the summer … Continue reading 2021 Reading List
Lessons on disagreement from the letters of Henri Nouwen. Continue reading On Disagreement
We’re coming up on a full year of COVID services at my church. As we begin to think about the possibility of reopening in the coming weeks and months, I have a question I think needs to be pondered. Continue reading Before We Reopen: A Question for the Church
One would think that a global pandemic would be conducive to lots of reading. This was not the case for me this year, as I often found myself behind on my reading goals. I still managed to read a number of quality books. As I wrote here, each year I try to read a number … Continue reading 2020 Annotated Reading
What does my thesis from four years ago have to say about justice, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory? This post answers that question, and is for those weary of entering discussions on racial injustice, or who are eager to dismiss them altogether. Continue reading Nothing New Under The Sun
Pastors and church leaders, as a result of the global pandemic, have an opportunity to rethink and reimagine what the church will look like moving forward. I offer three principles to guide our conversations about the church. In Part 1 I looked at Simon Chan’s Liturgical Theology and the first principle: we need to define the church … Continue reading Re:Church [Part 3]
With the global pandemic affecting all of us, the church has been forced into a situation where it cannot continue on as it was. Pastors and church leaders have an opportunity to rethink and reimagine what the church will look like moving forward. To those ends I offer three principles to guide our conversations about … Continue reading Re:Church [Part 2]
When the world shut down in mid-March due to Covid-19 I spent the first week building a live-stream set up for my church from the ground up. The next three weeks were packed with making tweaks to our online streaming, preaching on Palm Sunday, and preparing our Easter weekend services. It was only after Easter … Continue reading Re:Church [Part 1]
We all want peace, joy, and life. When we encounter suffering, pain, or death, we fight against it, or avoid it, passing over it as quickly as possible. We want to keep our distance from what makes us uncomfortable. With the world currently shut-down for a global pandemic it has become more difficult to avoid … Continue reading O Sacred Head (It Is Finished)
It has taken me years of reading Eugene Peterson’s books to finally feel like I am starting to understand them. The first book I read took two attempts. I first picked up Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places somewhere between the end of high school and my first year of college. I did not finish … Continue reading Feeling The Worship
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James M. MacKnight 