Blog, By This Way of Life, Failing Falling Flying
by Rev. Eric Elnes, Ph.D. Last Tuesday we observed the eleventh anniversary of an event that so penetrated our national psyche that it is remembered merely by its date: 9/11. A lot has changed since 9/11/2001, hasn’t it? Really, what area of life...
Blog, By This Way of Life, Failing Falling Flying
by Eric Elnes, Ph.D. Last week we explored the first Creation Account in Genesis 1, reading it alongside the Babylonian story of creation. Many of you expressed surprise to learn that Genesis 1 was written as a distinctly Hebrew response to–and polemic...
Blog, By This Way of Life
by Eric Elnes 1. Field of Engagement Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make...
"Waypoint Two: 'Hookers, Looters, and Cheats: Curious Companions of Jesus'", Blog
by Eric Elnes I. DNA, Clay, and the Scots So I had this really strange experience just as I sat down to write this blog on Friday. I noticed my mother had sent me an email with a link to a DNA test I took months ago when I was in Arizona. She has been studying our...
Blog, Gifts of the Dark Wood, Week 7: Gift of Doubt
by Eric Elnes War on Easter? Have you ever noticed how, come Christmas time, the news is full of stories about the “War on Christmas.” It’s like clockwork. You reach December – or even October or November – and suddenly the drums start...
Blog, Gifts of the Dark Wood, Week 6: Gift of Misfits 1
In the early 1990s, my wife Melanie worked as a food technologist in Research and Development for a large frozen foods manufacturer. One of her team’s projects involved developing a new macaroni and cheese product that could be sold in the frozen food aisle of...
Blog, Gifts of the Dark Wood, Week 4: Gift of Temptation
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive…then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman When was the last time you were seriously tempted to do something overtly sinister or evil? I’m not...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 4: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The day after arriving home from the Wild Goose Festival with the Darkwood Brew team, my mountain bike was stolen. It disappeared from outside a Vietnamese restaurant in Omaha where I was eating lunch with Darkwood Brew producer, Scott Griessel and Brew’s...
