The Sacred Profane Files

I think if I am reading the current environment correctly, with popular book titles such as: * You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are leaving the Church…and Rethinking Faith by David Kinnaman * Love Wins by Rob Bell* The Church...

“The question is ‘Can you stand erect in your pain, your loneliness, your fears, and your experience of being rejected?’  The danger is that you will be swept off your feet by these feelings.  They will be here for...

Found this over at Split Frame of Reference….who took it from someone else that I was excited to find…but doesn’t look like they are still blogging.  Hilarious and all in good fun.  If we can’t laugh at ourselves –...

NOTE: This that I share is something that hit me when I was finishing up the Companion Guide for Love Wins.  This analogy really helped me to understand a certain verse that I was getting hung up on in...

Continuing my series on why I thank God He is bigger than the Christian church I wanted to explore the this theme that keeps emerging in my life and how it plays out into this picture.  It takes me...

If you’ve been reading for the last few weeks you know that I spent some much needed REST time in Hawaii…a Sabbath week if you will…restoring my health (even if it was short-lived) and spending some much needed down-time...

Do not let me fool you.  I know I am by no means in the clear here.  Not in the clear of my journey out of grief…especially since the next module in my Life Skills class is on …of...

Note: this was a post I wrote in response to my post “Victoria Secret vs. Proverbs 31” posted on Crosswalk.com.  I was getting comments that made me realize I hadn’t given them enough background on my journey, so for...

“Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others…” ~ Henri Nouwen  Again turning to the book that Nancy Ortberg shared with me, I found another nugget of truth waiting for me yesterday as I sat basking in the cool...

Growing up in the midwest doesn’t provide one – especially one who is part of a family of limited means – to experience things that say a kid on the west or east coast gets to experience.  That is,...