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rev. dan king

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.

 

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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.

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Holy Rhythms for Hurting Hearts

Author · Episcopal Deacon · Speaker · blogging since 2007

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glimpse

A few years ago I was sitting on the couch with my wife Nicole. We were watching TV, and I have to say that it just looked so blurry to me. Now it wasn't that this was the first time it had looked that way...I knew that one of my eyes was better than the other and...

they disfigure their faces

they disfigure their faces

Jesus just finished teaching his disciples how to pray when he said to them, “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others." (Matthew 6:16a) I dig how Jesus went ahead and offered...

blessed

blessed

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…

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...

20 books @bibledude readers are reading right now [march 2012]

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

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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