Husband to Kelly, father, avid hiker. Senior Pastor at @EastbrookChurch. MDiv @nseminary. DMin @westernsem. "Pastor as Gardener" with @EerdmansBooks in 2026.
Wisconsin, USA
Joined May 2009
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Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world christiancentury.org/feature… via @ChristianCent
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Many of us are gutted and grieving today. If it would help to share anecdotes and memories of Wendell, please do. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
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There seems to be something rather fitting that the day after Wendell Berry dies is "The Feast of Creation in Christ" on the church calendar. It’s almost as if Providence had arranged things just so.
Here is Berry’s “Sabbath Poem X” from his 2005 collection, "Given: Poems":
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This week on the podcast ––
A conversation with Matt Erickson on his book, The Pastor as Gardener:
pastortheologians.com/podcas…
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The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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You may recall that we highlighted this at BookNotes and I raved about it. One of the best written and insightful books about ministry we've seen in a long time. Enjoy this conversation...
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“God cannot be mocked.”
BREAKING: Catholic U.S. Congressman @tedlieu just released a torching statement about Trump and Vance mocking Jesus, and demands an appology:
“Stop doing stupid stuff like attacking the Pope… It’s very clear when you look at the Bible, that you don’t have false idols, and you don’t mock God... Donald Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus. He should not be making a false idol of himself. No one should be worshipping Donald Trump. He needs to apologize for that deeply offensive post… JD Vance says ‘that was a joke.' Well this is what the Bible says about that… ‘do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.’ So Donald Trump is going to reap what he sows.”
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That you, @bensasse?
Can we now all admit that this is a cult of personality, the leading worshiper of which is its leader?
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There is behavior that's so self-evidently deranged that merely seeing it should lead to fury and disgust. I'm concerned, however, that some evangelicals are so influenced by Trump that they won't unite with their Catholic brothers and sisters in response to Trump's blasphemy and intolerable attacks on the pope, but will instead turn against them.
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This week's episode of "Interesting Times" is a conversation with Ben Sasse, who is dying in public:
nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opini…
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Available now! 🎉 In The Pastor as Gardener, @mathyouerickson encourages #pastors to reframe their vocation as the work of a gardener. 🌱 He shows how gardening metaphors offer new ways of thinking about critical issues in #pastoral work. loom.ly/C_OMzEI
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One post discussing forthcoming books by Matthew Erickson, Jamie Smith, Kate Bowler, Michael Gorman, Malcolm Guite, Alan Noble and Tish Harrison Warren. Come on! heartsandmindsbooks.com/2026…
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This week on the podcast ––
A conversation with Matthew Erickson on his story of becoming a pastor theologian, as well as his new book "The Pastor as Gardener" from @eerdmansbooks:
pastortheologians.com/podcas…
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Hey folks. It’s never too late, or too early, to realize the brevity of our lives; whatever we put in social media today will remain (even if you delete your account) in perpetuity in some ghastly ways. So post with knowing you are leaving a digital footprint of who you are, your posting your social media epitaph. I want my legacy in life to be for beauty, truth and goodness so that the next generation and beyond can plant seeds of hope and they will take deeper roots.
@iamculturecare @HaejinMako #ArtIs #CultureCare #Refractions @yalepress @ivpress @NavPress @BrazosPress @crossway @BucknellU @CTmagazine #timewaitsfornoone #generativelves #beautyandjustice #beautyxjustice
Follow these folks for leaving beautiful, generative, footprints.
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Let us not be merely hearers of the good words of Martin Luther King, Jr., or only, God forbid, quoters of his words, but doers. Let us do so by rejecting the hostile ways of Herod and all Petrine instincts for violent retribution in order to achieve the peace of God’s kingdom.
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Many countries are going to raise the age for social media accounts to 16 in 2026 because.... parents everywhere see the damage.
Large majority of German adults want to do it. Even adolescents lean toward support:
afterbabel.com/p/strong-publ…
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Brad is right, this is a major setback in efforts to protect children from the already-known harms of having their friends, therapists, advisors, and later lovers be LLMs.
“The White House has just issued an executive order that’s going to make it harder for states to regulate AI. This is a mistake. We’ve already seen what Big Tech has done to our kids with social media. Now, the danger is Big Tech will also hurt our kids with AI products that degrade their capacity to socialize, erode their capacity to flourish educationally, and hurt them emotionally.”
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Comment@commentmag1 Oct 2025
“While the virtuous ones may be asked to serve, they must be willing to follow Christ to the cross if needed, to relinquish power rather than injure their integrity.”
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This is to you Jesus followers who are also in ministry from your big sister who has seen a lot, read a lot, heard a lot and experienced a lot. I don’t believe people surrender to a calling with impure motives. They may not know what they’re getting themselves into but it’s not the kind of thing most people imagine at that point making them rich or powerful and able to manipulate and exploit and perform.
But Satan uses every possible scheme to lead us “astray from [our] sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2 Cor 11:3) I can’t say this strongly enough. Be relentless in your protection of your own relationship with Jesus. Let no one—and I do mean no one—get between you and Jesus. This is not only for your benefit. It is for theirs.
Do not let your own time of prayer and Bible reading turn into preparation for messages. If you do not have regular times of prayer and Bible reading, Saint, you are already cooperating with the enemy’s scheme to lead you astray. Return to the spiritual disciplines. Nothing replaces them and you are not the exception.
Do not let what you are pouring out exceed what you have invited Jesus to pour in. In the powerful words of the apostle Paul, “having begun in the Spirit, will we now finish in the flesh??”
Do not hand over your prayer life to intercessors. Let your thorn in the flesh which you no doubt have and I certainly have continue to pop the balloon of an inflated ego. That’s what it’s for. Serve with humility.
One word. Jesus.
Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus.
This ONE is all that will matter at the end of the day. At the end of our lives. Every single one of us has the capacity to lose our way and exploit the work and the gifts God has given us to make a show of our flesh.
We are quick to talk about people who fall into scandalous sins but there is something much more sinister that can go on for years and everyone see it in us…but us. There is simply falling away from sincere devotion and somewhere along the way replacing our first love.
We can do this, Saints. But we will not do it by accident.
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A Prayer of Peace:
O Lord, manifest yourself to the world this day as the king who refuses to use the violence of the world to achieve peace on earth, so that we might be strengthened to do the work of your peaceable kingdom. Amen.
(via "Prayers for the Pilgrimage" @ivpress)
