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
latest writing
what time is it?
It's 7:14am. I've just poured my coffee, spilled it all over our unfortunately-white countertops. My sleepy hands carry the mug to the breakfast nook in our kitchen. The orangy summer sun is beaming on the east side of the trees. The birds are chirping. That lone...
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why God created marriage [and where to turn when you aren’t happy]
I don’t know what is wrong, but I can see it, feel it, yet I don’t truly ask. She smiles fake and I ask if work was difficult, ask if she’s tired. Typical questions. Easy questions, yet I stop asking before I hear the real answer; the answer of what’s causing the...
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living in extreme poverty [the survive125 challenge]
My name is Divya Patel. I'm a brickmaker in India with 4 kids. My family and I live on less than $1.25 a day. This is a month in my life. I choose to live in the slums rather than the village because even though it's crowded and dangerous, but we are near a city, so...
standing firm
We read in 1 Corinthians 15:6 that Jesus after his resurrection appeared to over 500 persons in one meeting. We also read in Acts 1:15 that there were 120 persons together when they cast lots to see who would replace Judas as one of the twelve apostles. We also know...
tell me more about the pain.
"I’ve heard several editors say they make a practice of chopping off the concluding two to three paragraphs in Christian writing, not because the writing isn’t good, but because this is when Christians consistently shift into autopilot optimism. They present the...
tis the season for garage sales!
We went yard sale shopping last weekend. It seemed like there was a different sale on every corner. People selling all sorts of stuff they no longer want or need. Nice things, ratty things, all sorts of things ... after all, one person's junk is another person's...
stand your ground
A popular text growing up was Ephesians 6:10-20 on “spiritual warfare.” I remember being taught to pray over myself the armor of God each morning so that I would not fall to temptation in my life. However, the personal application is of secondary nature to the main...
the God-questions
"It’s not brave to have answers. It’s brave to watch them get erased, obliterated, rubbed out with a half-chewed cheap eraser on the end of a #2 pencil, the kind that leaves black nasty smudges in the wake of that math formula that should have contained, as promised,...
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book review: good idea. now what? [how to move ideas to execution]
I wake up in the morning dragging. I search for that first dose of caffeine that'll get me going through the day. My wife tells me that I really need to go to bed earlier. But that would mean I'd have to stop what I'm working on in the evenings, and that's just...
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Conversations with Daughters, Season 3, Episode 26: The Bible Dude
