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 character He’s forming [courageous in calling]
What on earth am I doing on earth? Why am I here? What's the meaning of life? A lot of people have taken the easy route in finding the answers to these questions, and found at the end of the route that there actually exist no answers. I remember asking a friend whom I...
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[god in the yard] me: self care
[serialposts] The scream of the coffee grinder startles me and I'm finally awake. "Good Lord, it's morning." I whisper coarsely, and I wonder how I got into the kitchen. I smell the freshly ground beans, and I briefly wonder what they'd taste like if I'd pour milk...
who attends your church?
In a recent conversation with a friend I heard of a man who was asked to leave a local church because he was a cross-dresser and was unwilling to change his clothes when he came to church. Obviously each situation in a local church is different and should be handled...
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technology: a microcosom [and mini review of echoprayer.com]
mi·cro·cosm /ˈmaɪkrəˌkɒzəm/ [mahy-kruh-koz-uhm] –noun 1. a little world; a world in miniature ( opposed to macrocosm). 2. anything that is regarded as a world in miniature. 3. human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world...
technology: a cancer in the universe?
"I agree Technology is per se, neutral: but a race devoted to the increase of its own power by technology with complete indifference to ethics does seem to me a cancer in the Universe. Certainly if he goes on his present course much further man can not be trusted with...
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[god in the yard] poetry: silence
[serialposts] Secretly we spoke, that wise one and me. I said, Tell me the secrets of the world. He said, Sh... Let silence Tell you the secrets of the world. -Rumi Silence. Be still and know that I am God. Elijah was unable to hear the voice of God until the din of...
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finding hope in the tornado zone [an interview with @WorldVisionUSA]
I was sitting in the delivery room with my wife early on the morning of April 28th, and we turned on the TV to pass a little time. Flipping over to the news, we saw video of a mile-wide tornado riping through Alabama. It was part of what's been termed the 2011 Super...
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the official 2011 bibledude.net [summer reading list]
Last Summer I shared a list of 7 fascinating books [for your summer reading list]. But this year the team has grown a little bit, and I wanted to share what our contributors think is worthwhile for the time that we spend with our face buried in a book, Kindle, Nook,...
the fireworks of God
Read: John 17:1-11 "In the beginning..." starts John's Gospel, "was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being." (John 1: 1-3) John...
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Conversations with Daughters, Season 3, Episode 26: The Bible Dude
