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Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 4 Jul 2025 / 7 minutes read

Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Let's move from celebrated mainstream marches to disruptive movement making

The Fast is Over, Still Much Work to be Done

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 2 Jul 2025 / 2 minutes read

The Fast is Over, Still Much Work to be Done

40-Day Fast for Gaza Daily-ish Updates Compilation Video

E71: Faith in the Snake Pit: Pastor Jacob Buchholz on Reality TV & Radical Inclusion

podcast episodes

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 23 Jun 2025 / 1 minute read

E71: Faith in the Snake Pit: Pastor Jacob Buchholz on Reality TV & Radical Inclusion

Pre-Season Episode with Pastor Jacob Buchholz, "The Pastor" on "The Snake"

Update: Holden Village, the 40-Day Fast for Gaza, and Productivity

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 21 Jun 2025 / 3 minutes read

Update: Holden Village, the 40-Day Fast for Gaza, and Productivity

A quick check-in for subscribers and friends

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 6 Jun 2025 / 2 minutes read

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

A few words of affirmation, lament, and love during Pride Month 2025!

Daily Updates: 40-Day Fast for Gaza

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 22 May 2025 / 4 minutes read

Daily Updates: 40-Day Fast for Gaza

Where I'll share my daily reflections and thoughts about the Fast for Gaza.

Featured posts

christianity

Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Let's move from celebrated mainstream marches to disruptive movement making

4 Jul 2025 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

pride

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

A few words of affirmation, lament, and love during Pride Month 2025!

6 Jun 2025 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

My Memorial Service

An invitation for us all to help our loved ones grieve at the time of our death

26 Oct 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

Today, There is Crying in Baseball.

Grateful, Grieving, and Being so Pissed off at John Fisher that Major League Baseball is Now Dead to Us

28 Sep 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

The Grief, Disappointment, and Inevitability of Losing Acquaintances and Colleagues

And the joy, hope, and inspiration made known through co-conspirators and accomplices

28 Aug 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

A Letter from My Great-great-great-great-grandchild, Cruz

An exercise in remembering that we fight for justice because we believe it's possible.

20 Aug 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

My Charge and Benediction

It's all that easy and it's all that hard

9 Nov 2023 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

My Memorial Service

Today, There is Crying in Baseball.

The Grief, Disappointment, and Inevitability of Losing Acquaintances and Colleagues

A Letter from My Great-great-great-great-grandchild, Cruz

My Charge and Benediction

Neutrality will not save us.

Previous articles

Join Me? Gaza 40-Day Fast and 22-Mile Pilgrimage

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 19 May 2025 / 4 minutes read

Join Me? Gaza 40-Day Fast and 22-Mile Pilgrimage

Two ways that I am going to keep hoping and trying.

Be Someone's Radical Auntie

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 18 May 2025 / 4 minutes read

Be Someone's Radical Auntie

Reflections on those who form us and our privilege and obligation to do the same.

My Month in Palestine: The Horrible & The Holy

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 12 May 2025 / 2 minutes read

My Month in Palestine: The Horrible & The Holy

Re-Recorded talk and slides from my Presentation and Q&R on May 10, 2025

Privilege, Perseverance, and Running My First Half-Marathon

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 4 May 2025 / 5 minutes read

Privilege, Perseverance, and Running My First Half-Marathon

Some thoughts on the luxury, gift, and hope of fitness on the back half of my life

What We Do Makes a Difference. Period.

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 2 May 2025 / 4 minutes read

What We Do Makes a Difference. Period.

Why I hope when I am overwhelmed by hopelessness.

INVITATION: "The Horrible and the Holy" A Report Back from my Time in Palestine

professional update

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 27 Apr 2025 / 1 minute read

INVITATION: "The Horrible and the Holy" A Report Back from my Time in Palestine

A Presentation and Question & Response time from my time in Palestine