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Monthly Archives: August 2007

To Print or To Post?

12 CommentsAugust 18, 2007

On Wednesday I wrote the article friends have told me to write for years. It tells how I suffered from depression between the ages of eleven and thirty-one, and the miraculous way I came out of it. I know a lot of people who struggle with depression, though not a lot of them talk about [...]

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John Reed: Pastors’ Pastor

Leave a commentAugust 17, 2007

The Jot & Tittle (DTS’s student newspaper) published this profile of Dr. John Reed in its summer edition. Here it is for your online viewing convenience. John Reed hesitated as he stared into the mirror—somehow, he had forgotten how to shave. He dressed, then wandered into the living room. His daughter Beth phoned, but he [...]

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Good Game

1 CommentAugust 17, 2007

Relevant published my article How Video Games Taught Me about God this week on their online portal. It appeared there in an abbreviated and sanitized form. For the full, raw, uncut version, read on. Let’s make a game. Let’s you and I sit down together and invent our very own video game. Then we’ll show [...]

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The Long Dark Night of the Dead Living

2 CommentsAugust 13, 2007

In the churches I’ve been involved with over the last twenty years, I’ve seen a kind of mass deflation. It’s not the churches that have gotten smaller, it’s the people. Churchgoers attend less regularly. They give money less consistently. A smaller and smaller core serve a larger and larger clientèle of punters. When I meet [...]

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Articles in Kindred Spirit and The Jot & Tittle

Leave a commentAugust 1, 2007

I’ve had a few print articles published this summer that I want to tell you about. “Anchored in Deep Waters” is the article I co-authored with Eva Bleeker on the ongoing Katrina recovery effort, published in Kindred Spirit. The seminary student newspaper Jot & Tittle published my profile on DTS professor John Reed a few [...]

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