Author Archives: Fred

About Fred

I am a follower of Jesus, husband and father. I am a son, brother, friend, multi-vocational pastor with Williamsburg Christian Church, TEDx alum, ethnographer, community organizer, published author, founder and president of 3e Restoration Inc, and adjunct professor at Rochester University and Regent University. I received my B.S. in Ministry/Bible at Amridge University and my Masters of Religious Education in Missional Leadership (MREML) from Rochester University. I am currently working toward my Doctorate of Ministry in Contextual Theology at Northern Seminary.

Trauma and the Hypothetical

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Fred

Traumatic stress is an emotional wounding that results from experiencing or witnessing a traumagenic event or events. A traumagenic event is a highly stressful, horrifying event, or series of events, where one feels a lack of control, powerlessness, and threat … Continue reading →

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“Try Jesus”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Fred

If the gospel and the community it forms doesn’t ask something of me and my family, then is it worth living for? If the gospel announces that I can have life with God, a new way of understanding how life … Continue reading →

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A Palm Sunday Poem Of The Privileged Self

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Fred

Emotions are dryLooking for a highBut spiritually denyThe plank in my eye. Treating Church like a BDubsAnd Jesus like a bartenderLookin for the next fixItching for the next bender. I need a spiritual pep rallyGotta keep a good tallyon my … Continue reading →

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Do Good, Not Harm

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Fred

Do good, not harm. Religious indifference is harm. Religious passivity is harm. Civil conversation in the name of peacekeeping is harm. Conversation without action is harm. What-about-ism grounded in defensiveness is harm. Trying to ‘win’ by de-centering historically marginalized voices … Continue reading →

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Conflict and Doing No Harm

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Fred

There’s a lot as a society we can disagree on. We should. Conflict itself can open space for hidden things to be revealed. It can be a place where the transcendent is discovered. In the Christian faith conflict becomes a … Continue reading →

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