it’s always so darn serious around here at the carnival. i don’t mean to be intense all the time, and i swear if you know me in real life i’m actually fun, hahah! honestly, though, sometimes it’s nice to just chill a bit and not solve all of the problems of the church in one […]
Read Moreleadership lessons when you want to run for the hills
hey, did i scare everyone off with that last post? i hope not! one of the things you non-bloggers need to know is there’s nothing worse than putting something a little risky out there and not getting very many comments! and one of the things all you bloggers know is that part of this journey […]
Read Moreabsence makes the heart grow fonder
31 days of no blogging. well actually i wrote one easy post for the refuge blog called hope is dangerous so maybe it was only a total of 30 days! but really i was more disciplined than i usually am and barely ever logged on to the carnival dashboard the entire month. we also instituted […]
Read Morerewind, pause
well it’s been exactly 1 year and 2 days since the carnival blog started! i remember that christmas vacation 2007 i got totally sucked into wordpress & facebook and yes, that addiction lasted throughout 2008. it has been a great year, i have been able to say so many things on my heart about church […]
Read Morecan i at least have a cup of coffee with my slice of humble pie?
if you haven’t noticed by now, i have some pretty strong opinions about church-y stuff that can definitely come across as judgemental and harsh. harsher than sometimes i want it to. i do not mean to, it’s not like i set out to let it rip every time i sit down on my computer. i […]
Read Morea failure of nerve
i was driving home from jose and i’s fun getaway to lake powell catching up on emails & rss feeds (gotta love jose’s nifty internet phone connection that hooks to my computer!) and i came across something that really caught my eye & my heart & i just keep thinking about. it was in a […]
Read Moregoodly parenting (yep, that's two o's)
my friend brian at the cheek of God is doing a guest posting series on parenting. he’s been a faithful carnival commenter & i am so thankful to have crossed paths out here in blogland. love his writing, love his heart. i thought since our readerships are really different i’d cross-post it here. the question […]
Read More"whatever you do, don't work for a church" & other lingering notable quotables
i was walking in the airport the other day lost in some weird travel trance when i remembered a random thing someone said to me years ago that i’ll never forget. no idea why it drifted across my mind, but the words of a placement counselor when i was at denver seminary in 2001 flashed […]
Read Moreblog-tag-fun
well i haven’t participated in one of these blog-tag-games in a while, but i got tagged by brother maynard so i couldn’t say no, hahaha. plus it was a good one to make me think about the carnival blog and why it’s been a fun & challenging thing for me in all kinds of ways. […]
Read Moreseeing the swan
thanks my dear friends for understanding, for the love, the emails, the phone calls, the comments. i of course have felt encouraged in more ways than you know. in case you didn’t notice, i am a verbal processor. something happens inside me when i say things out loud & God moves in in all kinds […]
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