Month: June 2010

I am on vacation… kind of. Every few months I take a “blog vacation”. It helps me stay fresh, focused, etc. With the exception of those breaks, I have been posting daily for about a year. I have two weeks left of class at culinary school. While … →

I have been following this story of a church who banned a softball team from its league because the coach is a lesbian. Is it any wonder that most gay people have concluded that the church wants nothing to do with them? For a variety of reasons th… →

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In the restaurant industry, when you get buried in the kitchen and fall behind, we say that we are “in the weeds”. It is a bad feeling to be in the weeds and every chef/cook I know has been there. It can be overwhelming and paralyzing — which of … →

From Andrew Marin: As many of you know, over the last four years The Marin Foundation has been running what has turned in to the largest national scientific research study ever done in the LGBT community regarding spirituality and religion. We hav… →

For the first time in a long time I feel like I am getting some vision clarity from God… as always, God-sized visions are impossible apart from God. Interestingly there are two visions/ideas that God is working on my heart these days and I am be… →

Food and eating and celebrations were central to Jesus’ life (after all, he as accused of being a glutton because he went to too many parties) and his teaching. Food shows up in many of his stories, teachings and parables. One of my favorite is in… →

A ministry friend reminded me yesterday that the church does not handle singles very well. I didn’t really need to be reminded of that fact, but he raised it as an important issue to discuss — and I agree. I think the last church I was at did an … →

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Fathers… on this Father’s Day… take some time to honestly assess your life… is there a slow fade taking place? Are you becoming he man that you want your kids to emulate? Watch both these videos… and then get face-to-face with your Heavenl… →