rev. dan king
let’s walk this faith together.
Author, Episcopal deacon, and speaker. Writing for 19 years on Scripture, prayer, service, and ancient practices that meet us at the intersection of everyday life.
Holy Rhythms for Hurting Hearts
Essays on Mental Health and Ancient Church Practices
Holy Rhythms for Hurting Hearts is a collection of deeply personal and pastoral essays exploring how ancient Christian practices can meet us in the middle of modern mental health struggles. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, burnout, grief, or simply longing for peace in a chaotic world, this book offers a gentle invitation to find healing through sacred rhythms like prayer, Sabbath, liturgy, service, and more.
Written with honesty and hope, this book doesn’t offer quick fixes. Instead, it points to the beauty of slowing down, showing up, and rooting yourself in practices that have carried the Church through centuries of both suffering and joy.
Author · Episcopal Deacon · Speaker · blogging since 2007
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[real-time connections] chapter 10: stop subverting the message
As always, I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in one of Dan’s group blogging projects. Initially I had asked Dan for a different chapter assignment. Apparently my reply to "Dan only" was against group blogging protocol and the chapter I requested was...
[real-time connections] chapter 9: making space for everyone
I don’t know what I expected when I volunteered to lead the discussion on chapter nine of our BibleDude group blogging project, but it wasn’t a discussion on religious freedom. With a title like Making Space For Everyone, I was thinking tolerance; I was thinking love...
[real-time connections] chapter 8: sweating the work
I must confess to you a scandalous secret: I have an aversion to Evangelism. Oh, dear reader, please do not hate me! This distaste does not stem from a lack of love for my God - it’s just that my experience with evangelism has always been so – um, what’s the word?...
[real-time connections] chapter 7: serving together
This Chapter has relevance in 2 areas of my Life. 1.) My Church is Also a Missional Church, similar to Bob Roberts- Northwood Church, Focused on reaching outside the 4 walls of our Church, to Reaching the world for Christ, locally, and globally = Glocally My Home...
[real-time connections] chapter 6: engaging society
This past Christmas season, I was eating out and was being waited on by a young waitress that I had come to know over a period of time. I asked if I could pray for her and she mentioned her husband needed work and couldn't find it but that she had been able to work...
[capture beauty] the water by kailey morgan
Why I see beauty here: The water is going only one way and you could not see the end of the stream of water anywhere. It felt like it was leading you somewhere unknown which drew the people passing by to stop and gaze out further than they could see. Wondering what...
[capture beauty] prayer walk by dan king
Why I see beauty here: This is a shot that I got while out on a Community Prayer Walk with some others from my church. What I find beautiful is not so much in the visual that the picture presents, but in knowing the prayers that were being delivered with each step....
[real-time connections] chapter 5: living as a disciple
Recently my wife and I were out to dinner and I was moved to asked her this question, "Are we serving God enough?" Our first response was no, but as we thought more about our lives and our involvement with our children, church, and school, we felt that we were serving...
[capture beauty] innocent play by larry meredith
Why I see beauty here: There is a passing beauty in the moment, a feeling of lost and bright youth in contrast to the weathering of age. The clean and gleaming reminders of innocent play against the mud that can await a misstep in this world. Submitted by: Larry...
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Conversations with Daughters, Season 3, Episode 26: The Bible Dude
