Checking out, checking in

You can now find me at my new site: Gershom’s Journal. Update your links, blog rolls, etc., folks! Peace.

Fuller Seminary, Jim Wallis, and me

This week’s SEMI (Fuller’s student publication) features an interview with my boss, Jim Wallis, and an article by me telling some of the story of how I ended up at Sojourners. For those of you at Fuller, pick up a copy and let me know your thoughts! And if you’re not in Pasadena, drop me [...]

Thou

Dag Hammarskjöld: Thou Whom I do not know But Whose I am. Thou Whom I do not comprehend But Who has dedicated me To my fate. Thou (Markings, 214-215) Thanks to Wess.

Tonight is inexplicable

Tonight, for some reason, I am filled with a most-unspeakable and inexplicable joy. For the first time since my move to DC, there is a settledness of spirit, a calmness of character. There is a renewed hope in my calling, a reinvigorated sense of freedom in God, a restored feeling of confidence in my own [...]

New music!

I just uploaded a few songs from last night’s concert on my Facebook and MySpace. Check out “Let Love Be Right,” “A Moment,” “Who,” and “Undone,” and let me know what you think! UPDATE (Feb. 23): Just added “Monster.”

Time won’t leave me as I am

Original post: March 4, 2008; update: January 26, 2010. I like hanging out with God. Just me and him. Like old times. Like when I used to have lots of time to just be. For the last few years, life has become busier and responsibilities have piled up, and I’ve had to learn a new [...]

Perhaps you haven’t yet truly lived …

Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ; February 19, 2009: If you haven’t felt the bitter pain of betrayal, perhaps you haven’t trusted enough. If you haven’t fallen flat on your face, perhaps you haven’t ever tried to soar. If you haven’t had your heart truly broken, perhaps you haven’t fully experienced love’s true wonder. If [...]