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Continue reading →: ★ Like Me
President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) P050809PS-0264…
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Continue reading →: ★ Benedict's Instruments of Good Works
The Rule of St. Benedict provides practical wisdom for living the Christian life. It is a highly influential Rule of Life and has benefitted communities for 1500 years. When you read through the Rule (and it’s very worthwhile to read), you find that Benedict understood human psychology well and was…
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Community and Growth by Jean Vanier (Summary paper)
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Continue reading →: Community and Growth by Jean Vanier (Summary paper)“Community and Growth” (Jean Vanier) Community and Growth by Jean Vanier Paulist (1989) Description of the Book Community and Growth is Jean Vanier’s reflection on spiritual growth in intentional communities, and is written from his experience with L’Arche communities for developmentally handicapped people. In the author’s words, Community and Growth…
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Continue reading →: ★ 70 Books in 70 Days: Christian Ethics Book Reviews
My friend and high-school classmate Ron Sanders has recently launched a blog with a friend of his, and I’d like to refer you to that blog. Ron and Reggie Williams are Ph. D. students at Fuller Seminary studying Christian Ethics. They’re getting close to being done, and they’re headlong into…
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★ To Pause at the Threshold (summary paper)
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Continue reading →: ★ To Pause at the Threshold (summary paper)“To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border” (Esther De Waal) To Pause at the Threshold by Esther de Waal Morehouse (2001) Description of the Book To Pause at the Threshold is a short exploration of the boundary spaces in our lives and our response to these…
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Continue reading →: ★ A Celtic Creed
We believe in God above us, maker and sustainer of all life, of sun and moon, of water and earth, of male and female. We believe in God beside us, Jesus Christ, the word made flesh, born of a woman, servant of the poor, tortured and nailed to a tree.…
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Continue reading →: ★ To Pause at the Threshold (Part 3)
“To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border” (Esther De Waal) The final chapter of this book is the one I enjoyed and appreciated the most. Titled The Time Between The Times, it looks at how we live with those twilight moments when something is dawning or…
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Continue reading →: ★ To Pause at the Threshold (Part 2)
“To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border” (Esther De Waal) There is a traditional saying of ancient wisdom: “A threshold is a sacred thing.” (p. 1) We have thresholds, transition points, throughout our lives. In our culture, we tend to rush through them, or not even…
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Continue reading →: ★ Presence and Impact
Being genuinely present to someone also means being willing to be touched by him or her. If I genuinely bring myself to a relationship, I must be prepared to be changed by it. Anything less than this means that I am not totally present. Being genuinely present means that I…
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Continue reading →: ★ Reading Entire Authors' Catalogs
A while back, I posted a blog entry about the authors that I would love to commit to reading all of their work (or at least a large majority of it). Then, I said this: I was thinking today, as I sat down to do some book summary papers for…
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