The Funny Friar

One of the essential spiritual practices of the Christian life in general and of living the faith at home, is the practice of Sabbath. T...

One of the essential spiritual practices of the Christian life in general and of living the faith at home, is the practice of prayer . A...

One of the essential spiritual practices of the Christian life in general and of living the faith at home, is the practice of reminder. ...

This Advent , I’ll be writing a three-part blog series, “Spiritual Practices at Home.” Advent is a wonderful season of the Church year f...

This Lent, I’m exploring Five Characteristics of Christian Community in series of sermons as well as reflecting upon these themes here...

This Lent, I’m exploring Five Characteristics of Christian Community in series of sermons as well as reflecting upon these themes here. ...

This Lent, I’m exploring Five Characteristics of Christian Community in series of sermons as well as reflecting upon these themes her...

This Lent, I’m exploring Five Characteristics of Christian Community in series of sermons as well as reflecting upon these themes here. ...

This Lent, I’m exploring Five Characteristics of Christian Community in series of sermons as well as reflecting upon these themes her...

The Domestic Church is the Real Church When we think about the basic unit of society, we inevitably think of the family. Of course, the n...

Killing the Minister One of the reasons that North American Christians have so frequently limited Christian commitment and faith to church g...

From Services to Service As I mentioned in an earlier post, we need to shift the principal focus and locus of Christian commitment away from...

From Churchainity to Christianity Faith is to be principally lived, witnessed to and developed in the context of everyday living. We have m...

The Sunday Morning God Most Christians understand that God has interests that extend beyond Sunday morning. Daily, millions of people aroun...

Today I am beginning a new blog series entitled, “Does God Attend Church? Re-Thinking Where Faith Should Be Lived.” I believe this topic to...

The last practice I want to talk about this Lent is the Christian practice of giving. I saved this practice for last for a couple of reasons...

Jesus did not work with individuals per se, that is, He always worked with individuals in the context of a community or within a network of ...

Christian life can never be reduced to a “me and Jesus” sort of spirituality because Jesus never gave us such an individualistic and self-ce...

Often Christians question what God wants them to do, who God wants them to become, and how they should live. I understand this dilemma and t...

Worship is more than an event, a church activity or collection of songs. As human beings it is in our spiritual DNA to worship. We were crea...