Bruce Reyes-Chow

Spent the day with some folks from the Presbytery of New Covenant talking about culture shifts, church planting and the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Had a great time!  Here are the slides I used for the morning session.  Much thanks to the crew from Southminster Presbyterian Church for the hospitality!  Not many twitterers there, but baileyws and dbcollies held their own [...]

Photo: Here I am officiating my sister, Deanne’s, wedding. This past December my wife, Robin, and I celebrated 20 years of marriage. That chilly 1990 December morning at Ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church, before God and our community, we boldly and tearfully exchanged vows proclaiming our commitment to one another in marriage. Oh wait, that wasn’t [...]

Photo: My youngest daughter and her 2nd grade teacher Like many people today, I have opinions about a great many things and expertise in few. But, as a person who votes, pays taxes, is a person of faith and happens to have a venue where I can freely express my opinion, I think it’s important [...]

There is so much going in the our little part of the Christian family called the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Honestly, sometimes our in-fighting and bickering seems so trivial in light of other happenings in the world. Still, for many of us this is our home and we have chosen to be here.  So with letters and responses flying back [...]

[photo: myvector] OK, I admit it, the post title is a tad bit provocative.  But, left or right, the very idea of finding commonality is intriguing.  For even though all of the terms used above are ideologically and semantically loaded, I believe it is a given that our “sides,” whether in the halls of congress or [...]

Photo: Ashton Popiel Dear Girls, You may not remember, but four years ago I wrote you a really cheesy letter expressing the love and hopes that your mom and I have for your lives. Well, your Dad is cheesy as ever so I thought I would write you another letter, this time in recognition of [...]

For the next few weeks our kitchen table looks like it will be Girl Scout Cookie central.  Middle is pretty driven – shocking – to sell, sell, sell!  We are trying to help her develop a kind and generous entrepreneurial spirit, so we shall see.  To find cookie selling Girl Scouts in your area: www.girlscoutcookies.org.

In order to test out the usefulness of the new Facebook Page upgrades, this week, February 13-20, I am going conduct a bulk of my facebook activity: posts, links, updates via my page and not on my profile. But why, you ask? Contrary to popular belief I am not generally an early-adopter.  This is particularly true when it comes to [...]

[Photo by bavetta] What feels like a million years ago, I was a signatory on a letter to members of congress about Arizona’s law, SB 1070, Presbyterians Issue Statement on AZ Immigration Law. A that time there was great controvery about immigration reform around the country and even greater uproar regarding the ways that AZ was choosing [...]

[Photo by Lou FCD] During a recenthot yoga class, my instructor basically told me that I was doing really well, but I needed to get rid of the “game face.”  Now I have always been a pretty competitive person.  I played baseball in high school, I might be a little intense when playing Settlers of Catan [...]

[Picture of The Shower of Stoles Project]  The past few days I have had the privilege of attending and presenting at the Creating Change Conference in Minneapolis.  This is an annual organizing and training event put on by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. I was there at the invitation of Rev. Janet Edwards [...]

[Photo: dolmansaxlil] A few weeks ago I posted the following facebook status update: Exercising my vast pastoral skilz today which included: fixing the wifi, rolling out the garbage bins and unclogging a toilet. The stories kept rolling in from folks who serve churches and have found great joy in the things that one does that not [...]

[Photo: hekatekris] Oh it feels so good, so justified, so deserved . . . and in the end harmless. “Sarah, you are an idiot!” “A-Rod, you are overrated and the YANKEES SUCK!” “Oh Justin, oh Justin, you just make me sad for the ears of an entire generation.” Yep, I love a well-placed jab, a cutting [...]

DISCLAIMER: While my daughter did happen to be in a Google Chrome Notebook Commercial (4:38) she had nothing to do with how I received a free Google Chrome Notebook and I am receiving no compensation for this review other than, well, this free Google Chrome Notebook. It all began about a month ago when a friend of [...]