by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | campus minister, coronavirus, Current Events, Lent, Lenten Season, love, Love everyone, Missions, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Sprituality, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK, Wilderness
Welcome to the wilderness. It’s fitting that we are in the season of Lent, walking with Jesus through unknown territory. No one knows what to do here, we are all anxious, uncertain, and fearful. And yet, when I think about this time, I am reminded of an article I read...
by admin | May 23, 2019 | love, Love everyone, PC(USA), Prayer, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), safe space, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, University of Tennessee, UTK
Leaving a place you love is always difficult. As I prepare for the conclusion of my tenure as the Pastor of UKirk-UTK, it’s difficult to put into words the swirl of emotion that I feel as this great time of my life comes to a close. I feel grateful. I want to thank...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | Coffee, giving, Hospitality, Love everyone, Millennials, PC(USA), Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Senior, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UPerk Coffee, UTK
In the next month, I will approach the day I’ve been looking forward to since I was a senior in high school: graduation day. Imagining my college graduation as a high school student, I dreamed I’d be graduating with a degree in biology or chemistry, plans to attend...
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | commumion, Current Events, Facebook, love, politics, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UTK
This may come as a surprise to some folks, but I am a big Garth Brooks fan. Not the weird Chris Gaines alter ego phase, but, for the most part, if Garth Brooks sang it, I like it. One of my favorite Garth Brooks songs is The Dance, a song that discusses the painful...
by admin | Apr 18, 2017 | campus minister, Lent, Lenten Season, love, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), safe space, student blogger, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UTK, Worship
On March 29th, the students of UKirk UTK and Vol Catholic joined together at St. John XXIII for a Moravian Love Feast, a time of fellowship and full bellies that centered on our faith communities’ unity in our mutual love of God. At first, it was nerve racking to...
by admin | Nov 14, 2016 | commumion, Current Events, election, politics, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), presidential election, safe space, The Lord's Table, UKirk, UKirk at UTK, UKirk branding, UTK
I keep coming back to this. And my Lord I have so many essays to write and here I am doing this. I’ll be brief. So last week I went to a discussion about religion in politics held by the PCUSA ministry and a non-denominational one. Two different ministries with...
