The band Over the Rhine uses a phrase in the liner notes for their album Ohio that has stuck with me for some time. Co-founder and husband of the spousal duo Linford Detweiler writes of being born in Hartville, Ohio, the small Mennonite town that neighbors my home, and meeting eventual wife and bandmate KarinContinue reading “God-Haunted”
Monthly Archives: July 2023
No Perfect Time Book Excerpt: Vocation
Below is an excerpt from No Perfect Time: Brief Essays on Life and Faith. I’ve heard it said that your vocation is where your passions and gifts meet what the world needs. Or at least, that’s my own iteration of similar statements. We often speak of “vocation” in ministerial circles, intertwined with or substituted forContinue reading “No Perfect Time Book Excerpt: Vocation”
The Actual Doing of the Thing
At the center of this year’s General Synod of the United Church of Christ, a “pray space” had been provided for children up through preschool age. It included tables at which to color or draw, some mats for crawling and tumbling, and a few other modest amenities for creative play. The idea for such anContinue reading “The Actual Doing of the Thing”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 