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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[fatherless generation] chapter 2: haunted houses
[serialposts] Each of us has this visceral longing, a primal urge to be accepted by our father and to make him proud. This urge is something like hunger or the need for sleep - it stays with us our entire lives. When Dad is not around, this urge becomes a haunting....
book review: exponential
Dave and Jon Ferguson set out in Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement to show the reader how to move from a church that just grows by addition into a church involved in a movement that ultimately grows by multiplication. Jon and...
i’m a gossip junkie
The people from my town love to gossip. Secretly, so do I. With a population just over four hundred people, it's small enough to know almost everyone and large enough to always have breaking news. "I heard your family bought that business... I sure hope you can manage...
what’s wrong with movies?
It seems to me that nothing is inherently wrong with movies. Movies are a good medium to learn about history, literature, culture, science, etc. However, the movie ratings system would suggest that some (or most) movies contain some form of objectionable content. So...
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[fatherless generation] chapter 1: somewhere i belong
[serialposts] "I remember grabbing his ankles--hanging on for dear life--as he walked out the door, dragging me as I pleaded with him to stay. I was fighting for his affection, literally. But it didn't work. It never worked." --John Sowers, Fatherless Generation It...
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dominican republic [micro]blogging for 2011-03-19
NEW POST: dominican republic [micro]blogging for 2011-03-18: - NEW POST: dominican republic… http://goo.gl/fb/2dPxC# a little more casual day today... a trip to the marketplace and some historic sites in santo domingo... then headed home! # @therockingchef LOL! it's...
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dominican republic [micro]blogging for 2011-03-18
NEW POST: dominican republic [micro]blogging for 2011-03-17: And so it begins… - swapping… http://goo.gl/fb/eWbjj# breakfast conversation focused on what we thought impacted us the most from yesterday... pastor's own lives transformed. #loveserves# just met the office...
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dominican republic [micro]blogging for 2011-03-17
And so it begins... swapping mission trip stories with the team while on our way to the airport for our #dominicanrepublic trip. do you have one? # Checking in for JetBlue direct to Santo Domingo... (@ Orlando International Airport (MCO) ✈ w/ 24 others)...
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[fatherless generation] introduction
[serialposts]I am a fatherless child. Perhaps more figuratively than literally, but fatherless all the same. It made all the big things in life harder than they should've been. And yet it wasn't until recently that I began to really understand the effect that it has...
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