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Another Shooting in America: A Litany

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 29 Aug 2025 / 3 minutes read

Another Shooting in America: A Litany

While words will never be enough, here are a few more if you need them for your community.

A Prayer: Another School Shooting

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 27 Aug 2025 / 2 minutes read

A Prayer: Another School Shooting

Words will never be enough, but here are a few if you need some

Book + Excerpt: Generosity

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 25 Aug 2025 / 3 minutes read

Book + Excerpt: Generosity

From "Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)

The + Friday + Five | Newsletters I Open

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 22 Aug 2025 / 3 minutes read

The + Friday + Five | Newsletters I Open

This Week: SACRed, RNS, PRRI, Mission Local, and IM4HI

The + Friday + Five | Brain Candy Binges

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 15 Aug 2025 / 5 minutes read

The + Friday + Five | Brain Candy Binges

This Week: Inuk Antics, SciFi Surprises, Gorgeous Lawyers, The Best Spock, and Drippy Canadians

The Water is Heating Up, Now Who Will We Be?

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 13 Aug 2025 / 4 minutes read

The Water is Heating Up, Now Who Will We Be?

Thoughts on being the beloved community and body politic that we hope to see in the world.

Featured posts

christianity

Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Let's move from celebrated mainstream marches to disruptive movement making

4 Jul 2025 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

pride

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

A few words of affirmation, lament, and love during Pride Month 2025!

6 Jun 2025 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

My Memorial Service

An invitation for us all to help our loved ones grieve at the time of our death

26 Oct 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

Today, There is Crying in Baseball.

Grateful, Grieving, and Being so Pissed off at John Fisher that Major League Baseball is Now Dead to Us

28 Sep 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

The Grief, Disappointment, and Inevitability of Losing Acquaintances and Colleagues

And the joy, hope, and inspiration made known through co-conspirators and accomplices

28 Aug 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

A Letter from My Great-great-great-great-grandchild, Cruz

An exercise in remembering that we fight for justice because we believe it's possible.

20 Aug 2024 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

My Charge and Benediction

It's all that easy and it's all that hard

9 Nov 2023 ⸱ by Bruce Reyes-Chow

Dear Christians, It's Time to Be the Christ We Claim to Follow

Happy Pride from a Random Presbyterian, Christian Pastor!

My Memorial Service

Today, There is Crying in Baseball.

The Grief, Disappointment, and Inevitability of Losing Acquaintances and Colleagues

A Letter from My Great-great-great-great-grandchild, Cruz

My Charge and Benediction

Neutrality will not save us.

Previous articles

The Next Book and the Ones After That

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 12 Aug 2025 / 4 minutes read

The Next Book and the Ones After That

Announcement about a new-ish project and more ideas bouncing around my brain.

From + The + Vault: A Dog's Letter to Her New Family

from + the + vault

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 11 Aug 2025 / 6 minutes read

From + The + Vault: A Dog's Letter to Her New Family

2011 Post when the Chiweenie arrived in our life

The + Friday + Five | Randomocities IV

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 8 Aug 2025 / 6 minutes read

The + Friday + Five | Randomocities IV

This Week: Boo Philz, carceral good news, play ball with a new umpire, Gaza support, and more blood in Texas

A Pastoral Letter to Friends, Colleagues, and the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 4 Aug 2025 / 14 minutes read

A Pastoral Letter to Friends, Colleagues, and the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

A space for communal affirmation, gratitude, and support in response to Rev. Jihyun Oh's letter calling for urgent accountability in the devastating crisis in Gaza and calls for 10 actions ‘grounded in the Gospel’

To the Best, Weird, Sweet, Cute, Goofy Dog Ever

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 3 Aug 2025 / 7 minutes read

To the Best, Weird, Sweet, Cute, Goofy Dog Ever

A few words to the dog who made us laugh, healed our hearts, and rescued our souls

The + Friday + Five | Randomocities III

Bruce Reyes-Chow / 1 Aug 2025 / 6 minutes read

The + Friday + Five | Randomocities III

Substack Nazis, AI Copyright Swindle, Spirituality of ChatGPT, Bend It, and One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math