Theological Musings
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Love Creatively, Work Imaginatively, Labor Joyfully, and Rebuke Graciously.
My friend Morgan, whose blog you can read here, recently wrote a post about what she has learned this summer. Her post has stuck with me over the past few days, and so I decided to do something similar. For some of you, the summer isn’t terribly different from the rest of the year. But, Continue reading
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3rd Grade Boys, Discontent, and the Jesus Creed
When rolled out next to the wish-dreams we have for the future, our present realities pale in comparison. This is not due to the superiority of future experience, though many of us assume that tomorrow will be better than today. It is due to the superiority of imagined experience over real experience. The present is Continue reading
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My Grandmother and I Took Communion Together
My brother and grandparents were in town this past weekend to celebrate Independence Day with my parents, my sister, and me. Needless to say, the house was crowded. It was a fun weekend spent playing cards, eating food, and having good conversation. On Sunday my family all went to church together (minus my brother who Continue reading
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Life Together: Christian Community is Hard
Last weekend I went to Abilene to spend time with my friends. Last Sunday we left early in the morning and headed to DFW so that we could go with a friend to the church she was working for. After that we had lunch and then went to watch the Rangers play the Mets. Because Continue reading
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Meat Sacrificed to Idols: Magic vs Faith in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Today is Father’s Day. My sister and I are living in Sugar Land this summer while we both work for First Colony Church of Christ, so we were both able to actually spend Father’s Day with Dad. Our plan was to go eat at The Swinging Door for lunch (an awesome BBQ place in Richmond) Continue reading
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Why Women Should Be Able To Pass The Plate
This is intended to be an article that organizes my thoughts on why any church, no matter its position on women in leadership, should encourage men and women, equally, to serve in the public roles during corporate worship Before I get too involved in the discussion of the role of women in the church, I Continue reading
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Love God. Love Others: How I Got Here.
To inaugurate my new mission of blogging at least once a week I want to share a little bit about myself. I grew up in a conservative—both theological and political—household. I grew up going to a place called First Colony Church of Christ. If you know anything about the Churches of Christ, then you know Continue reading
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Actually Contributing Thoughts: Why I am (re)starting my blog
I often say I am going to do something long before I actually do it. Last September I said that I would like my blog to be a place where I actually explore my thoughts rather than a place where I post the occasional poem or essay. Two reasons: As I near the end of Continue reading
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My Beatitudes
Blessed are those who take off the blinders of the evangelical subculture for they will truly find me. Blessed are those who cry out against American economic and military exploitation for they are my prophets. Blessed are those who treat gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals with the utmost respect and love for they understand the Continue reading
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Incarnational Community
Around the same time I was thinking the thoughts that led up to the blog post “Lonely as a Star” our Life Group began talking about the logistics of “multiplication.” That just means that our Life Group has gotten too huge and we will become two Life Groups. In our discussion a week and a Continue reading
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Lonely as a Star. Emotional Response to Modern Worship.
I recorded a poem on Friday. The title is “Lonely as a Star.” Before you think I’m some narcissist, some person so consumed with my own grandness that I refer to myself as a star, just try to understand the image. Stars exist in space surrounded by a vast blackness. We see their light from Continue reading
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My Prayer
Lord, make me love as Jesus loved: despising that small tepid emotion which would put you in a box of good-will and genial kindness and would forever lock you away from the sweat, grime, and abrasiveness of life lived and people loved. Lord, make me serve as Jesus served: rejecting the lie of “good deeds” Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 