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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book review: the accidental anglican
Bishop Todd Hunter’s new book, The Accidental Anglican: The Surprising Appeal of the Liturgical Church, is both informative and fun to read. His book has two purposes. First, he shares his own story of how he went from converting to Christianity during the Jesus...
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[fatherless generation] chapter 3: midnight sons and daughters
[serialposts] The fallout from fatherlessness is more than an individual tragedy. It impacts more than the fractured family, the single mother and her children. Fatherlessness is a catastrophic wreck that is poisoning our families, communities, and nation. No one...
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online activism and the weary reader [panel notes]
Just being at #icorphan was a privilege. Sitting on a panel with five other amazing bloggers to discuss online activism was an absolute honor. Our topic: Online Activism and the Weary Reader The panel: (l-r in the image) Kristen Howerton, Elora Ramirez, me, Amber...
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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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Conversations with Daughters, Season 3, Episode 26: The Bible Dude
