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This website is meant to be a space where you are invited to glean as much or as little as you would like.

If you are a church leader, I will be providing musical and liturgical resources I am creating and hope they benefit the community you serve.

If you enjoy reading musings on the faith, I’m developing a series of writings on topics such as music, liturgy, contemplative practices, faith, hope, doubt, and poetry. As an internal processor who enjoys writing, I have found it helpful to sit with my thoughts presented on a page and engage with those thoughts in a more concrete manner. I’ve tried journaling over the years and have never been able to sustain the practice. I’m hoping by creating a public platform, it will encourage me to be more accountable about creatively engaging with the way I’m processing my faith and the work I’m doing in the church.

If you are in church ministry context and want some ideas about how to infuse life, spirit, engagement, participation, and creativity in your worship ministry, I would love to have a conversation with you.

My passion is for the local church, and more specifically how the local church embodies and expresses their worship collectively through the sacraments, music, art, and liturgy.

I named this space Liturgy of Being as an attempt to highlight the sacramental quality of living a contemplative Christian lifestyle. My work as a church musician is simply a specific expression of a broader way of being. In my experience, Divine encounter has never manifest itself in mountaintop experiences; rather God has been revealed to me through a consistent stream of mundane interventions through common rituals. These rituals can range from making coffee in the morning, passively rejoicing in the sound of bird calls on a walk through the woods, being alone with my thoughts in a quiet space, or sharing a meal with friends.

These small reminders of God exist in the continuum of how our particular life is ordered in relation to God and in relation to our neighbor, thereby exalting commonplace activities of life into potential containers for revelation.

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