Bryan Travis

Memorial H S, Attended 1985 - 1989, Class of 1989

Drew University, Attended 1997 - 2000, Class of 2000, Master's Degree, Theology
Southwestern University, Attended 1989 - 1993, Class of 1993, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

United Methodist Pastor

United Methodist Church, West End Civic Association, Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equiy and Justice, Center City Churches, New York Annnual Conference, Hartford Hospital, Planned Parenthood, Reconciling Ministry Network

technology, theology, postmodernity, peace with justice

The Things They Carried, Awareness, Neuromancer

Lone Star, Swingers, Brain Candy

Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, John Prine, Kelly Willis, Bruce and Charlie Robison, Bob Wills, Hank Williams

The Office, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Sagittarius

Religion has not tended to create seekers or searchers, has not tended to create honest humble people who trust that God is always beyond them. We aren't focused on the great mystery. Religion has, rather, tended to create people who think they have God in their pockets, people with quick, easy, glib answers. That's why so much of the West is understandably abandoning religion. People know the great mystery cannot be that simple and facile. If the great mystery is indeed the Great Mystery, it will lead us into paradox, into darkness, into journeys that never cease... That is what prayer is about.
- Richard Rohr in Everything Belongs