Month: October 2016

  • The Decline of Christendom

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    This is the first sermon of my three-part series on being church in the great emergence. Please find parts two and three here. A photo posted by Daniel Haas (@revhaas) on Oct 9, 2016 at 7:45am PDT Who remembers the good ol’ days? For one reason or another church people keep telling the story of…

  • Yes, Sir!

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    My Army unit recently lost a Soldier. He died in a car crash and we will have a memorial ceremony soon. Preparing for that as a Chaplain I work with non-commissioned officers. Tradition has it that I outrank them, even though they may have far more experience on the job. A lot of times their…

  • The Great Emergence

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    “History repeats itself”, says a comforting adage. It means that what we do and what we don’t do, how we vote or speak really doesn’t matter in the long run. Things will sort themselves out like they always have. Sounds nice, right? Phyllis Tickle challenged that view. She discovered a pattern in history, or at…