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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prayers for the criminals
Why are people being bought and sold for sex in our world? Not just today, in present times, but throughout the history of our world. This is something that I have recently begun thinking about. Myself and a close friend, Avril, are in the process of starting an...
in the God seasons
I glance up from my desk at the infographic I drew last year. It’s taped to the pencil holder. “One Year with God,” I wrote across the top. The months are drawn in small squares around a hub like spokes in a wheel, a cycle of moments, days, weeks all adding up to a...
when you wonder if anyone is listening
I woke up on my birthday knowing it would be different. The way you know pancakes and bacon sputter on the grill from your warm spot in bed. Thoughts of close friends living in distant cities swirl dust halo over my dream fragments in early morning. For a brief...
a letter to those who hate religion
Dear Friend, I wanted to write you a letter, you who hate religion, you who think the Christians are responsible for so much hatred in the world, you who is tired of hearing about Jesus from people who don't seem to even know him. You, who wants nothing to do with...
the ethical choice
Recently I asked an adult Sunday school class, "Who is a well-known person that you trust?" It took a little while to answer, but we came up with some names: Billy Graham, Tim Tebow, Tony Dungy. Sadly, there was no one mentioned from the corporate world, the...
for when your creativity wanes
He tells us beside the Frio's flow, in his talk on The Care and Feeding of Creativity. That when work stalls and words stop, move. Because it's in the moving that we breathe. It's in the breathing that we keep breathing. Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Work out....
love without truth is just a hippie smoking pot
“They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are.” –...
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book review: now and then [a memoir of vocation]
In the book, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation, Frederick Buechner reflects on his vocational life. The book is separated into three chapters, which are titled according to the places where he went to school and worked: New York, Exeter, and Vermont. In New York...
when wonder’s wedged
Some days are way weary. This is one of them. Its wonder's wedged in the dusty gap between the cupboard and the fridge. And stuck in pancake syrup still puddled in the morning's plates. Tupperware towers topple on the work tables, containers that once held...
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