Robert Alan Rife

Robert Alan Rife

Robert Rife, M.A., minister of worship and music for Yakima Covenant Church (formerly Westminster Presbyterian) in Yakima, Washington, is a self-proclaimed book-nerd-word-herder, multi-instrumentalist (including Highland Bagpipes!), singer-songwriter, studio musician, choral director, poet, and liturgist. He maintains two personal blogs: Innerwoven and Robslitbits. He also blogs at Conversations Journal. Robert describes his vocation as exploring those places where life, liturgy, theology, and the arts intersect with and promote spiritual formation.

For Eastertide

“If you are searching for God, then you have found him.” -Blaise Pascal

Begins a beginning

There was a day, long ago, when the taste of dying flesh was insufficiently gratifying to a Middle Eastern tomb.

Give me (I)s to see

El-roi, the God who sees, brings our renewal by means of others. They provide our clearest vision of who we really are.

Chasing What Can’t Be Caught

We chase after our own need to stop the chase!…The Spirit subtlely nourishes our desert-spirits in sacred pursuit, a subversive subterfuge of sweet serenity.