What’s a refectory?
It’s a dining hall in a monastery, seminary, or academic setting where people gather, eat, are fed, and are in community with one another. Its Latin roots actually mean “a place one goes to be restored.”
Why The Refectory?
This room is a place where the things we learn or read meet our actual lives in the stories we tell around the table. For me, this is the in-between space where the ancient scripture I call holy (the Bible) informs and brings new meaning to my own life and faith. This is where we can engage our biblical imaginations.
What happens if I subscribe?
My musings and sermons will conveniently drop in your inbox, 2-4 times/month.
What will the posts be about?
Musings. Written pieces centered around a piece of scripture in conversation with my own life or experience (which, I hope, will inform your own life and faith).
Sermons. I preach these at my congregation in Minneapolis, and are no longer than 8-12 minutes. These will be video or audio posts, without the transcript, as preaching is an inherently embodied experience.
Is it free?
Yes!
If you’d like to support me, you can best do that by sharing my posts and The Refectory with others, as well as liking and commenting on my posts. I feel deeply called and inspired to invite others into a deeper biblical imagination, and you can help me with that by sharing it around!
Who am I?
I am a Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis, who thinks that being a follower of Jesus is completely insane and hilarious and impossibly hard and filled with hope.
I take seriously our common vocation to love and serve my neighbor, and (try and often fail to) live by this value both in my work and at the grocery store.
I love preaching, stewardship, and rituals around significant moments in life.
I am convicted that God’s gifts of Word and Sacrament actually transform our very beings even though I really have no idea why or how.
I feel deeply called to share God’s gifts of Word and Sacrament outside to people outside the walls of the church who—for one reason or another—can’t come to us.
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