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The Micah Conference & Racial Righteousness
Last week I was honored to be one of the keynote speakers at the 2014 Micah Conference held at Park Street Church by the Trinity Institute for Leadership and Social Justice of Boston Trinity Academy....
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Joining the Teaching Team at Rescued
For the past several weeks, my family and I have been attending a one year old church plant in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston called Rescued Church. Rescued is a beautiful expression of the Body...
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Teaching at Rescued (VIDEO)
Being a part of the teaching team at Rescued Church has been an amazing experience. The synergy that Rick, Mako, and I share is something very special. I love that each of us is so different, and yet...
View ArticleHeaven Come Down: LA, New City, and the Kingdom of God
This past weekend, Osheta and I visited New City Church of Los Angeles. It was our first visit to LA (although I had been once before very briefly with a mentor on our way to Hollister, CA). Since...
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SBL/AAR 2014: Theology Nerd Heaven
This past weekend, I spent four days in sunny San Diego at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR). This is how SBL/AAR describes...
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Seeking the New City #FromBostonToLA
“…looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” - Hebrews 11.10 Gone [Since] November Back in November, Osheta and I flew to LA to visit a church called New...
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From Boston to LA: Moore Fam Road Trip
This Wednesday, it will have been 1 month since we completed our journey to Los Angeles from Boston. It’s been a whirlwind. But I wanted to be sure to document our fateful journey here before it was...
View ArticleEvacuating New Orleans, Part 1 #Katrina10
As we come up on the 10 year mark since hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, I’ll be sharing some of my experiences. This is part one. It was a Saturday, and we were scheduled to have a yard sale...
View ArticleEvacuating New Orleans, Part 2 #Katrina10
This is Part Two of a series of reflections on my evacuation story. If you haven’t already, read Part One. As the radio warned residents to begin making evacuation plans, I could sense tension...
View ArticleEvacuating New Orleans, Part 3 #Katrina10
This is Part Three of a series of reflections on my evacuation story. If you haven’t already, read Part One and Part Two. When we finally reached Southeast Texas, Osheta’s godparents, Mickey and Missy,...
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Seeking the New City: 5-Part Sermon Series
This year, I began serving as a pastor at New City Church of Los Angeles. The Lead Pastor, Kevin Haah, took a four-month sabbatical in the late spring and through the summer. While he was away, the...
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Calling and Community: Celebrating the Journeys of Three Friends into...
This week, I had the pleasure and honor of celebrating the ordination and installation of three friends. Two were ordained as Anglican priests; the other was installed as an Orthodox Rabbi. Jon and...
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Father’s Day 2016
Two weeks ago, our middle boy, T. J., came running up to me after New City’s worship gathering concluded. “I’m going to preach!” he yelled. Of course, I had to learn the context of what he meant later...
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Summer 2016 Recap
It’s been quite an eventful summer. It’s our second summer in Southern California, but it felt like our first. Last summer we had just made the cross-country and cross-cultural transition from East...
View ArticleTeaching the Book of Revelation
Since Easter, I’ve been reading and teaching on the book of Revelation during the teaching ministry of our Sunday worship gatherings. We decided to name the sermon series “Unveiling Reality”. There...
View ArticleElection Day Communion 2016 Resources
On Tuesday, November 8th, I will once again host an “Election Day Communion” service. Four years ago, I hosted one in Boston when President Obama ran for reelection opposite Mitt Romney. This year, I...
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Renewing Hermeneutics: My New eBook
Everyone who reads the Bible, interprets the Bible. So, the question is only whether we will interpret the Bible well, or poorly. To interpret the Bible well, we don’t all need to be seminary-trained...
View Article11 Things I Learned About God From My Grandpa
My grandfather, Elwin Wiley Moore, fell asleep in the Lord on Saturday. He was an amazing man who taught me so much about God. But he never once beat me over the head with the Bible. Instead, I learned...
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Good Friday in DTLA
This year, we held our Good Friday service outdoors in Pershing Square park. We used a liturgy that included scripture readings from the Gospel passion narratives, responsive litanies, and...
View Article“Shalom in the Storm” (Acts 27.27-44)
This past Sunday (May 7th), I was honored to have the opportunity to deliver the message at a friend’s church: Faith Center in San Fernando, CA. The message that was on my heart was “Shalom in the...
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