Mr. Locke’s Classroom

This Sunday I’ll be preaching my last sermon at Faithbridge Presbyterian church, strapping on my guitar to sing my last songs with the praise team, and saying my goodbyes to all the people who have been part of our lives for the past decade. Then Amy, Grady, Abby and I will climb into our incredibly [...]

…when you could be reading one of these awesome new blogs instead: Thoughts From the Road — This is my former pastor, Philip Lotspeich, who now works at the Presbyterian Death Star in Louisville, Kentucky. He (obviously) writes often about theology and evangelism, but sometimes digresses into hilarious tangents about getting blamed for bathroom odors [...]

I know I’m late to this, and by now all the good, original answers are taken, but I’ve never been a big fan of originality anyhow. I’ve been tagged by Sarah Glass and Carol Howard-Merritt (whose blogs are both phenomenal and well worth visiting) in this meme started by Bruce Reyes-Chow, the Barack Obama of [...]

Last night as I was leaving (and locking up) the church, a man in a truck pulled up, and asked where the prayer meeting was. I said I didn’t know, but that we didn’t have anything scheduled in the building for that night. We have several groups and three different churches that share our facilities, [...]

An article I co-authored with Shawn Coons about Web2.0 and its relevance to the church was recently published in the Presbyterian Outlook magazine: But what does any of this Web 2.0 stuff have to do with the church? Wikipedia brings a diverse host of people together, and through their communal effort they make something much [...]

If a blog can have a mid-life crisis (what’s the life expectancy of a blog, anyhow?) I think this blog is in the midst of one. When I first registered the domain name “mrlocke.net,” I was a high school English teacher, and I used it to host a class website, where I posted assignments, resources, [...]

This new site design is, although still not quite finished, my first attempt at writing a wordpress theme. I’m calling it “Guthrie” after (duh, right?) Woody Guthrie. I hope that it lives up to its namesake as a simple, straightforward, and useful theme. I believe in credit where credit is due, so although I did [...]