Tripp Hudgins’ Busted Stuff: The Authority to Do Good

Tripp Hudgins is one of my favorite people. Full stop.

We met in Chicago a half-dozen years ago or so when I was still the religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and someone let me know that Tripp, then a pastor of a Baptist church in Wilmette, Ill., was doing a summer preaching series called “The Gospel According to John Hughes.”

How could I NOT love him? We’ve been friends ever since.

Well, last year, Tripp followed me to California (all the cool kids are doing it) a little farther north up the coast to pursue his doctoral studies in ethnomusicology (yes, that’s a thing) at UC Berkeley.

A consummate musician with an enviable collection of mandolins, banjos, bodhrans and the like, Tripp also has started writing more (which is a gift to all of us) and producing these video blogs, most recently for the fellas at SogoMedia.

Today’s installment is a good’un. Tough, but good. Honest and wise.

Have a gander bellow.

Check out more of Tripp’s stuff on his blog, AngloBaptist.org (“Conjectural Navel Gazing; Jesus in Lint Form”), read some of his recent stuff over at Sojourners, and follow him on Twitter (he’s awesome at it) @AngloBaptist.