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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how is your environment impacting you? [a @thehighcalling photoplay]
Rust. That's the focus of the current PhotoPlay at The High Calling. In basic terms, rust happens when iron and oxygen react to each other in the presence of water or air moisture. The crazy thing about it is that iron is relatively unaffected when by pure water or...
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protecting the least of these [a series on #humantrafficking]
[serialposts]Eleven years ago the United States government enacted one of the largest, most important, pieces of human-rights legislation in U.S. history. Known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), it was the first federal law that sought to...
light the torches and lower the drawbridge…
“I want to be part of a church that wants to be part of something.” These words came from my 17-year-old daughter, Grace. These words have rattled around in my head since they were spoken. They weren’t said out of anger or spite, but frustration at the circumstances...
when we are called to assist
Red prisms, beautiful prisms really, splashed on white linoleum. Blood sprayed between my fingers, hitting the kitchen window, and I remember the way it fell smooth, leaving only a watery shimmer behind as the red drops slid closer to the window sill. I laughed. I...
10 ways pain can help us tell story better
Pain is 'painful' and mostly not desired but a lot of people are always affected one way or the other by it and creators of art aren't always left out. And some say that a creator (a writer especially) has more to create when the person has experienced a lot of pain....
light giver
It is easy to get caught up in dark moments. I know I have. Sometimes you just want to cry and be alone. Lately, free time has been scarce. Like many people, I have been so busy, perhaps too busy. I have also been contemplating on what to write this week. Then I...
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[reverend fun] just a gag
I thought this one was pretty funny. I'm the kind of guy that likes to cut-up just as much as the next guy. And while this made me laugh, it also made me think about how seriously we take our own actions. What do you think about joking around, having fun, and not...
i am afraid
“Please Lord.” I pray as I step on the scale. I expect a little gain today. I've plateaued, but yesterday we went out to eat. Every time I go out to eat I gain. It's either real gain or sodium gain (which goes away the next morning), but even the sodium gain though...
dear faraway friend
My purple pen dances across the white, college-ruled page. The smell of the PaperMate ink fills my nostrils as I bend down as close to the paper as I can, somehow feeling as if I can be a part of the purple words I’m scrawling. I pause after my simple introduction...
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Conversations with Daughters, Season 3, Episode 26: The Bible Dude
