Red Shoe Pastor

Writings of Rev. Robert Glen Brown (Robby)

A space for compassion and love.

Category: Pastor Stuff

  • In the Name of My Sanity (Or, Sharing the Works of Our Hands)

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    Something in my last post that is absolutely true is that I want to write about something not awful.  The darkness in the world has been a reason why the previous iteration of this blog remained kind of active over the past three years, but only writing to respond to travesty is soul-killing for me.… Read more

  • How Do I Help? What Do I Say?

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    Is there an answer to my questions?  Can I actually do something?  Because I just do not know. I am so sickened that I can barely speak, and I certainly am struggling for words.  The President’s words today blaming victims and defending proud and violent white supremacists fills me with so much anger and fear,… Read more

  • Sleep On It

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    Last night a young couple came and essentially tried to convince Nora she’s going to Hell.  I’m not going to name-and-shame what church they came from, but it was very close to home.  It made me furious that the version of the gospel that was being sold in my neighborhood, and because I was busy… Read more

  • How Do I Pray For Everything?

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    Facebook is the source of 90% of my discouragement.  9% being impatient, 1% trying to figure out my digestive issues while remembering they aren’t even approaching debilitating and are probably 100% as minor as the doctor suggested, 90% reading Facebook. I just opened up Facebook after briefly opening and then closing and I found these… Read more

  • Love Thine Enemy

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    43 “You have heard that it was said, You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who harass you – Matthew 5:43-44 CEB Last week at Bible study one of the men, with a pained look on his face asked: “God… Read more

  • A (Hopefully Adequate) Reflection for Memorial Day

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    Every year I participate in the Memorial Day Mass here in Cascade, as I’m invited to share something for 15 minutes.  This year I decided, since I’m going to spend time writing it, and because I haven’t had anything to add to the blog in a couple of weeks, I’d put this up. God bless… Read more

  • Doubt (and Hip-Hop)

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    So as a 30-year-old, VERY white, rural-raised and rural-serving pastor, I am finally getting into hip-hop. Really.  I’ve listened to DAMN. quite a few times, HNDRXX and FUTURE have made it into my rotation, and obviously Coloring Book and Awaken, My Love have been listened more than is rational because I’m a white guy just… Read more

  • How Wonderful to be Thomas

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    Nora and I were talking a week or so ago and she said something that stuck with me.  She definitely isn’t the first to say it, but her earnestness and the emotion behind it just hit me: How amazing would it have been to be one of the few who saw Jesus after he was… Read more

  • The Internet Must Be Neutral

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    President Trump has made a major goal to end Net Neutrality.  Not making it up; Sean Spicer said as much.  I will attempt to write this as a pastor, not as someone who was a techie in a past life or a consumer, but as a pastor.  This is a response to something that I… Read more

  • Things That Stick With You

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    So I was all ready to write this very interesting piece of the faith of Judas, and it all hinged on one fact: Judas was a Zealot. As I was typing, something was nagging at me about that, that little voice that appeared the day I got bit by misattributing a piece to Martin Luther… Read more