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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The other Saturday I was making a pizza delivery like I do almost every Saturday. For whatever reason, we had more delivery orders than normal. I was in a hurry. I had three orders to deliver and I knew I had at least two more when I got back to the pizzeria. I went...
i wish i had her eyes…
The pre-spring afternoon was warm, layered in pollen, and begging me to go to the beach. But instead, I sit on my couch watching the sparrow play in our front yard, with the dryer drowning out the singing birds outside. I pass the time by working my way through Ann...
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20 books @bibledude readers are reading right now [march 2012]
I'm not surprised a lot by this month's list of what BibleDude.net readers are getting themselves into. It was a month when I was on a mission trip to Haiti doing a great deal of work with orphans and the poor. So to see several books on these issues on this list is...
[the 7 project] month one: food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPhWGh2QtQI [serialposts]I'm fat. Technically, the BMI calculators I just used tell me that I'm obese. My ever-increasing waistline is a clear example of my excess in the area of food. And watching my fat-pants get even tighter is a...
what we really need is “nothing.”
Our house is quiet. Sometimes it's a lonely "waiting for adoption" sort of quiet, but most of the time it's a soothing quiet. And I soak it up. Just the other day, I spent nearly four hours in consecutive silence. It was heart-binding. It was immense. It was...
there’s haiti mud on my shoes
[serialposts]Is it bad that I don't want to wash the Haiti mud off of my shoes? Most of it is already gone anyway, but the thought of washing the rest of it off just breaks my heart. I should probably be a little embarrassed walking around in public with dirty shoes....
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book review: when helping hurts [how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor … and yourself]
It was all starting to make perfect sense. I listened to stories about communities who didn't seem to care about maintenance as I stood there in Haiti looking at a broken (and now unusable) well. I also heard stories about American missions teams coming to visit well...
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the 7 project [an experimental mutiny against excess]
http://vimeo.com/25052075 The thoughts running through my head make me sick to my stomach. The kind of sick that causes me to want to shake it up and do whatever it takes to purge myself of the crap (yeah, I said it) that spoils everything else that's in there. And...
don’t let them tame you.
There's this conviction that's drilling deep down within me. And it's slow. But it's steady. And it just sinks and settles. And this conviction is that life is a gift—an opportunity. I'm not talking about a wimpish and half-hearted fling-the-dart-towards-the-target...
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