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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epistle of james [group blogging project]
It's New Testament wisdom literature... kind of like a 'modern' day Book of Proverbs. The Epistle of James is a book like no other in the New Testament. But that's one of the things that makes it so special. Some of the greatest guidance we have on Christian living...
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[fatherless generation] chapter 13: sustainable communities
[serialposts]Do you have somewhere to cry? Do you have somewhere to laugh? Do you have somewhere to play? Do you have somewhere you are loved? Do you have somewhere you are welcome? Do you have somewhere you can learn? Do you have somewhere you can teach? Do you have...
created with character
You made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven...
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[fatherless generation] chapter 12: in search of a name
[serialposts] These are sons and daughters who don't know their true name. They are searching for who they really are. In their search, they bring this question of identity to anyone who will listen. They live with the overwhelming urge to pursue those who will affrim...
the pastor’s salary
Spurred on by a comment on my last column (the pastor and the secular job) concerning the salaries of pastors, I am curious what the smart and worthy readers of BibleDude.net think about the contemporary state of the income of full-time pastors. It seems to me that...
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rising from the ashes [an interview with bob shirock]
Something incredible is about to happen in Detroit. This Saturday, 40,000 people from over 500 congregations will gather for a historic prayer walk. Beginning at Comerica Park and walking 2 miles down Woodward Avenue to the Spirit of Detroit statute on the riverfront,...
selling a spiderman kite
They were literally everywhere! One thing that certainly stands out as we drove through Santo Domingo (and other cities in the Dominican Republic) was the massive amount of street vendors. And no, I don't mean sidewalk vendors. I mean street vendors. These are dudes...
immovable me
"Your mother-in-law has terminal brain cancer." "Uncle Ted died." "Your father-in-law had a heart attack." "Honey, I got in a wreck. I'm ok, but the car doesn't look so good." These are all things that have been said to me in the last year and a half or so. Each time...
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[fatherless generation] chapter 11: anatomy of a mentor
[serialposts] ~ I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ -- Maya Angelou In July 2010, a new Charter School, called “Mentorship Academy,” opened up in Baton Rouge,...
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05.31.2026 Trinity Sunday Sermon
