Confessions of an Idiot Pastor

Here are my top 5 Pet Peeves. Any you would want to add? #5 Slogans I’m talking church marque signs. And bumper stickers. And matching mission team t-shirts. I once saw a team in a Florida airport heading to Haiti with shirts boldly declaring, “WE HELP THE POOR.” The shirts were complete with a Haitian…

Spending time with Daniel Schoen is never forgettable. Dangerous, probably. Predictable, hardly. Legal, mostly. Forgettable – only with Alzheimer’s. What was I saying? Daniel picked me up on Wednesday to play in SW Colorado. He arrived in his hell-bound motorhome filled to the roof mounted satellite antenna with diesel, food, and a ticket home –…

It was totally my fault, as I hit a fairly stationary curb. NO – this isn’t a picture of my wreck. I put this one in so that the owner of the Ford I did wreck would maybe think, “Hey, at least it wasn’t that bad.” Today HAD to be perfect. It was our first…

Not that I’m a bad sick person, but… Friday-Sunday I would have swore I got hit with an experimental nano-virus made up of millions of cat-like rabid living razor blades using my throat as a scratching post. Late Sunday the head was still congested and in pain, and I was coughing up all kinds of…

John Shuck, a Presbyterian pastor, doesn’t believe in the God of the Bible. And yet, he claims to be a Christian. Which makes me wonder, “What is a Christian?” He wrote on an atheist website what he does believe. It goes like this, in his words: “Religion is a human construct The symbols of faith…

We’ve given up on a Christmas letter. So – here is our Valentines letter, mostly written by Micah. Let the idiocy and merriment begin. Max: Still Mama Cooley’s favorite, even though he poops outside. It’s weird. Mama and Papa Cooley: Well they became grandparents, again in 2014, which is a bonus, I guess. The new…

Some Facebook posts should never have been written. Guilty. Some should be engraved in stone – like this one. It was written by Chad Barrett, a friend of around 30 years, whose daughter went home to heaven last year. Here is what he wrote: I was driving last night, and Caroline (our 9-year-old) was in…