Here’s a list of curriculum that I’ve written or reviewed.
Published Writings
“Start Dreaming and Imagine Church Anew.” Renew 52: Ideas to Change the Church.
Here is my contribution to Renew 52: Ideas to Change the Church put out by Luther Seminary. You can still download a...
Lesson and the Arts: 1 Kings 8
There is the acknowledgement that this is the dwelling place of the Lord and in the very next breath the question of how any place could contain the God. The Temple becomes a conflicted symbol: is it the dwelling place of God or not?
Lesson and the Arts: 1 Kings 2 & 3
One of the reasons that we read Scripture each week is in the hopes that it will begin to foreshadow elements of our parishioners’ lives. It is as true with faith as it with all else: we often do not see what we are not looking for.
Lesson and the Arts: 2 Samuel 18
But perhaps the larger theme, the more universal element, is David’s struggle to be both King and father. It is a struggle we imagine God must have had when Jesus was on the cross, and it is a struggle we are all familiar with in our own lives.
Lesson and the Arts: 2 Samuel 11-12
Good stories, good art, and good music have the ability to hold up a mirror to our own lives, our own stories, so that we might see them again as if for the first time.
“In God’s Wake.” Young Preachers Compilation, Vol. 1. Shook Foil Books
Too often we forget that seeing God’s back means that God has gone ahead, preparing the way for us. We do not go forward alone.