After spending ten years as a music professor at a Christian university in Texas, I currently serve as a church music director. I spent the first 30 years of my life in the Assemblies of God but recently, I began the process to be ordained as a deacon in full connection in the United Methodist Church. Some refer to folks like me as "post-charismatic, but not post-Spirit" and I think this fits me.
I have a doctorate in sacred music, with an emphasis in church music history and literature, as well as significant work toward a doctorate in vocal performance and pedagogy.
I have a wonderful wife who moved halfway across the country with me and the three most beautiful little girls in the world.
In 2006, I began a journey that has taken me in a direction I really never thought I would go. In my quest to deal with the changes that my life brought me, I began to write down my thoughts, personal reflections, and comments on society in general and the church in particular. This blog is a result. Sometimes it is thought provoking, and sometimes it is thoughtless, but it always captures my mood and mode of life at the moment.
I call this blog "Dr. Keaton's Questionable Content" because I started out asking a lot of questions in order to make sense of my inner turmoil and to deal with the changes that just kept coming. Now, more than ever, I realize that there are no easy answers, if there are answers at all. I have to trust God to clear the path for me one moment at a time. I long for days when answers were black and white, but I am coming to terms with God in the gray as well. And, hopefully, I will come to terms with myself in the process.
"The day we are completely satisfied with what we have been doing; the day we have found the perfect, unchangeable system of work, the perfect answer, never in need of being corrected again, on that day we will know that we are wrong, that we have made the greatest mistake of all." Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered
"God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with desire that men know of them. The person who works for God with purest love not only cares nothing about whether men see him, but doesn't even seek that God himself know of them. Such a person would not cease to render God the same services, with the same joy and purity of love, even if God were never to know them." St. John of the Cross
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." James Joyce
1 comment:
Looks like she's "sticking to the issues."
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