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Vital Signs for a Deeper Life

with our Chaplain

A hat for a Vietnam veteran, airborne.

Real Commitment. Real Love.

With Veterans Day this week, what might have been an ordinary encounter has stuck with me. I met a guy who was visiting one of our residents, and his “Airborne” ball cap and Vietnam patch on his vest poked my curiosity....

Kintsugi

For years I’ve been intrigued by Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese craft of repairing broken pottery with gold-laced glue. Rather than trying to disguise where something has been broken...
Len Kinzel, the chaplain, holding up his bluetooth speaker.

HAL and Dust

I have been a Word Nerd my whole life, and I am more fascinated than ever by some of the words in Genesis. At the pinnacle of Creation, we’re introduced to...
Len Kinzel, sierra view homes' chaplain

A former radio journalist, Len Kinzel spent 28 years in South America, including 18 years as senior pastor of an international church in Ecuador, before God transplanted him and Beth in California. Len holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pastoral ministry and is an incurable reader and lifelong student. He is especially interested in learning more about God’s design for the human brain and where faith, aging, loss, and ordinary life meet.