In a digital world, I think we have forgotten what it means to be rooted in reality. As I grew up, I found myself fascinated by sci-fi films depicting interconnected computer systems. The computer systems in movies like Star Trek and War Games differed radically from the ones I used at school, inserting black, floppy, five-inch disks to play games like Moon Patrol, Number Munchers, and Oregon Trail.
On April 1, I celebrated two years as the pastoral leader at River Corner Church, near where the Conestoga River meets the Susquehanna River in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. While this is not a long tenure by any means, nor is it even the longest I have served as a pastoral leader in a context, it is an anniversary worth celebrating.
From the Works or Epistles of George Fox in 1683, Fox writes that in 1 Thessalonians 4:11, we see "the diligence in the truth that the apostle exhorted the church to practice" (Fox, CCCLXXXIX, 1683).
Sometimes when I come home and look at the many repairs that I need to do on my house, I become defeated by the overwhelming amount of work that I think