Bruce Reyes-Chow

I admittedly love gadgets, but I can usually resist feeding the “I want to have it first” buying frenzy. I waited until the second generation Kindle came out before jumping onto the eReader train; despite my own predictions, I never bought an iPad even when it got a camera and last year, I gladly gave up my iPhone in order to go [...]

A Patheos.com Book Club selection, 25 Books Every Christian Should Read has me conflicted. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to lose much sleep over this, but I do think that this book raises significant questions about the nature and perception of American Christianity. In a nutshell, if you are one who dreams of a [...]

This past weekend on the heels of the raid of the 101 California Occupy SF encampment, I and other members of the faith community attended a rally in support of the ongoing presence of Occupy San Francisco.  Held right in the middle of Market Street in front of the Federal Reserve Building, there was a large group gathered [...]

Photo : Blue Dot Imagery This past weekend I had the privilege of seeing Nicole Maxali’s – pronounced “Mah-SHAH-Lee” – solo performance, “Forgetting the Details.” The story of Maxali’s journey from childhood to adulthood as she navigated some hard realities of her family, the plot revolved around her relationship with her grandmother and the impact of the onset of her Alzheimers on the family. [...]

If this is the first time you have ever read my blog, getting you up to speed on my social and theological location might take a little too long. Suffice it to say that I know that my perceptions of what is radical or safe is colored by my experience as, not simply a life-long Presbyterian, but [...]

Yesterday I came home to this . . . Apparently my two youngest daughters and their friend had decided to build a fort in our living room. As children have done for eons, every chair and blanket in the house was hauled into the room and strategically placed in order to a create a spacious multi-use gathering space. [...]

On Tuesday San Franciscans will head to the polls to vote in one of the more interesting mayoral elections in recent memory. Unlike the Newsome/Gonzales battle of 2003 when it was a two-person battle, this year, out of the 16 candidates in the race, there are more than a 1/2 dozen who have a legitimate shot at the highest office [...]

As a person who makes his living writing and speaking there are times when it can become easy to start believing the hype.  The event invitations, flattering introductions and affirming comments can sometimes start to make a person believe that the world really does revolve around him/her.  Most folks whom I have met in this line of “work” [...]

I love Halloween. If Halloween parties replaced Jello shaped like a brain with turkey and mashed potatoes, Halloween might jump above Christmas and Easter  Just kidding – all of my Christian fundy friends can go ahead and breathe –  . . . but really, I loves me some Halloween festivities. What other day are we [...]