Bruce Reyes-Chow

As part of my commitment to a couple of book projects, this spring I am taking a personal blogging hiatus and have invited some folks to blog in my stead. It is my intention help share some new voices and perspectives with a larger audience and keep my blog active during my break. If you are interested in guest blogging, feel free to submit an idea. Today [...]

As part of my commitment to a couple of book projects, this spring I am taking a personal blogging hiatus and have invited some folks to blog in my stead. It is my intention help share some new voices and perspectives with a larger audience and keep my blog active during my break. Today we welcome Emily Morgan [BLOG | TWITTER] and her open [...]

[Photo By aussiegall] I know that for people of all faiths prayer is an incredibly important part of life, not only for one’s own sense of connecting to God, but also in order to stay connected to the people around them. As social media gets further embedded in our everyday lives, this sense of who is “around” [...]

[Photo By joiseyshowaa] It is hard to believe that this September will the 10th year since that defining morning when the World Trade Center and our understanding of the world was attacked. I still remember getting into my car that morning shocked at how inappropriate the morning show was being that day.  Then the realization that they were not joking [...]

  UPDATE 05.04.10 – PNS Update on Nashville Flooding. There are just some days where the world’s pain and destruction seems overwhelming.  We read the papers, watch the news or sit with people to talk about life, we know that there is so much that we simply need to offer to God in prayer and [...]

[Photo by sociotard] Throughout my travels as I have been attending conferences and visiting ministries, I have invited folks to send me short write-ups on their ministries and, with the understanding that, as I was able, I would post them on this blog.  My hope in doing this is by no means to touch upon all ministries with a Presbyterian connection, [...]

[Image from mbcc worship: sculpey, journals, pipe-cleaners and coffee] While I do enjoy worshiping with various congregations throughout my travels, I do miss worshiping with the community that I serve, Mission Bay Communion Church. There is so much I miss about worshiping with this group of folks and after a few weeks away, I have [...]

[image: robokow] Today is my 40th Birthday.  So far I have survived The social media enabled well wishes via twitter and facebook have been overwhelming as I experience the blessings and breadth of God’s presence in my life.  While many of you I do not know personally, the willingness for folks to take a few [...]

[image: bigpinkcookie] This morning I sent out a check-in note to the members of the Moderator’s Facebook group asking for people to let me know how folks are doing and what’s going on in their congregations and communities that will help inform what I say back to the church.  I also asked us to keep [...]

[image: grant macdonald] As violence in the Middle East rages on, how can we not come to God in prayer?  The complexities and nature of the historical, cultural and political realities are overwhelming for most of us and in times like these, all I know to do is to pray for understanding that may yield [...]

By now you may have heard about the tragedy that has come upon my family and the shooting death of my brother-in-law, Brian Pugh, last week.  While many try to rush to make some sense of such violence I have been buoyed by the great cloud of witness to allow ourselves to simply be held [...]

Our family is filled with gratitude for the outpouring of prayers lifted up on behalf of Carol, the kids and the rest of the Pugh family during this tragic time.  It goes without saying that this past day with Eldest and I still in NY – headed home today – has been difficult.  Still, Robin [...]

With a heavy heart, I ask for prayers this evening for a family who’s very being has forever been changed. As some of you may have heard, earlier this evening there was a shooting in the South Bay.   One of the people killed was my brother-in-law, Brian Pugh.  Needless to say, we are all in [...]

September 18, 2008 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, 2008 has been an extraordinary year of disasters, nationally and internationally. This week, our television screens are filled with scenes of destruction from Hurricane Ike. We are confronted almost weekly with news of another tornado, earthquake, cyclone, flood or hurricane. It seems there is hardly time [...]