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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discovering purpose
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life. ~Ephesians 2:10 I take the albums off the shelf, one by one. Before putting them in the box, I just can't resist cracking them open. Taking a...
got manna?
God has some wild imagination. Just picture those hapless Israelites, out whining in the wilderness about what’s for dinner. In comes the Provider, sprinkles some wafer-honey-like-matter all over their neighborhood, calls it “manna,” and tells them to gather away. But...
book review: when Beauty pursues you
I'm not even sure that she understands me now when I tell her how beautiful she is. She's only 14-months old, but I've been telling it to her since the very day she was born. I guess I could stop and wait until I know she can not only understand what I'm saying, but...
why you should meditate
The streetlamp outside the bedroom window casts a gentle glow about the room and I look at the way the light recedes; a bright halo, then soft light, then near darkness. I focus on the light, the way it moves into the darkness and is swallowed and I try, too, to move...
come away with me
I sleepily rise and pour the coffee into my cup. It's an earlier morning than usual. For some odd reason baby girl thought 5:30 was an acceptable wake-up time. It's 7:00 now and she's back to sleep for her morning nap. I have a choice to make ... I could go back to...
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book review: the five love languages [the secret to love that lasts]
I recently read for the first time the popular book, The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing, 1995). The easy-reading book has a phenomenal concept on how people express love toward and how they receive love from one another. The concept is...
when life goes on
Editor's Note: Read part one of this story... how to love the ones who don’t love you I clean the cat box and elbow the 51 inch TV draped in a shroud on the screened in porch. It’s another thing that didn’t fit in the storage unit. There are now two china cabinets...
giving to God
The average self-proclaimedly active Christian gives about 2% of their income to the church. If all self-proclaimedly active Christians gave merely an average of 5%, there would be $133 billion more to do the work of the gospel. As I read this on a friend's Facebook...
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surpassing knowledge [ephesians 3:14-21]
Ephesians includes two prayers by Paul concerning the readers of the letter. Ephesians 3:14-21 is the second of those prayers. [1] It's an extraordinary prayer asking Father God to strengthen his people by the power of the Holy Spirit and to have power to know...
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05.31.2026 Trinity Sunday Sermon
