Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. When we confess our sins, Father, one of our problems as …
Saying Amen on the Fly
I was recently asked a practical question about my approach to the prayer book tradition. For services at Christ Church, I write out most of my prayers beforehand — for the call to worship, the prayer of confession, the prayer for illumination, and the closing prayer. There are a couple of other prayers that I …
Denomination Blues
Denomination Blues – Jenny Gedddes Band | Bucers in Moscow, Idaho from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo. The sound is just a tad muddy, so here are the lyrics . . . Denomination Blues Now let me tell you people it’s a natural fact No man reads the Bible alike and that’s all, I tell you …
A Russian Doll of Writing Tips
A few weeks ago, I posted some tips for writers that garnered a bit of attention. Writers like this kind of stuff, it appears. The first tip was to get out more. A writer should have some kind of real life ballast. Here are seven tips that will help explain that first tip. And, weather …
Today Show Appearance
Here is the clip from the Today Show this morning. Nate talks about cupboards with some kids.
Ministers Losing True Ministry
“Your problem is that your preaching did not effectively bridge the distance between your people and Christ’s work. Instead you hurdled it and ended up on this side. You may have become (no matter how unwittingly) a pulpit proclaimer of practical ethics or a sermonic psychologist. But you are no longer — in any vital …
Good and Hard
“Any man seeking control of the engines of the state, the better to accomplish his plundering, always promises to make the great businesses pay taxes — and the envious man cheers. But of course, no business ever paid a tax without passing it on to the consumer, and the envious man finds himself paying for …
The Flight Attendants Are Lying
I have noted before that one of the things that the fundamentalist mindset does well is identify the logical trajectory of an idea fifteen minutes after it is first stated. In contrast to this, there is a sophisticated and nuanced academic mindset that likes to fiddle, discuss, analyze, count, and try on different readings of, …
Without Property Rights There Are No Human Rights
One of the complaints made against King George III in our Declaration of Independence was this one: “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Multitude of new offices. Swarms of officers. Harassment from the government. Eating out our substance. …
No Comparisons, Darn It
As Buffalo Springfield put it once, something’s happening here. Over the years at Logos School, we have been consistently proud of our students, and of their high level of performance coupled with consistent cheerfulness. All the classes have been remarkable, and some of them have been spooky. I remember one time, a number of years …