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Categories: Links of the Day

★ links for 2009-04-24

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April 24, 2009

Earth Day 2009 – The Big Picture – Boston.com Earth Day 2009 Today is Earth Day, a day set aside for awarenesss and appreciation of the Earth's environment, and our roles within it – this year marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. As a way to help appreciate and…
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Categories: Music

★ Playing For Change: Song Around the World "Stand By Me"

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April 23, 2009

Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me” This video comes from the documentary Playing for Change: Peace Through Music. It features musicians around the world adding their part to a song as it travels around the globe. Playing for Change exists to build schools, connect students, and…
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Categories: Links of the Day

★ links for 2009-04-23

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April 23, 2009

The Megachurch and the Monastery | LeadershipJournal.net A megachurch pastor writes on the challenges of spiritual formation in the megachurch, and how his staff is learning from monastic spirituality: "I was first introduced to monasticism while taking a spiritual formation class taught by Dallas Willard. I began using fixed-hour prayer…
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Categories: Uncategorized

tags: Benedictine, monasticism

★ Perhaps

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April 22, 2009

In the Introduction to their translation of the Rule of St. Benedict published as “The Rule of St Benedict” (Anthony C Meisel and M L Del Mastro), the authors describe the single-minded pursuit of union with God that a monk displays. Since his primary goal was union with God, the…
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Categories: Uncategorized

★ Links Back

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April 21, 2009

After a brief hiatus, I’m bringing back the Links Of The Day topic. Longtime readers may have noticed that although my post frequency is back up to 5-ish posts a week, much of the content is highlighting stuff written / produced by others, with perhaps some of my own commentary.…
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Categories: Faith, Music

★ Alison Krauss: A Living Prayer

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April 20, 2009

I’ve said it before and will repeat it again now – I can’t imagine that angels sing any more beautifully than Alison Krauss; if she’s not part of the heavenly choir. somebody screwed up the audition results. Her band – Union Station – is also one of the most talented…
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Categories: Faith

★ God Is Not a White Man

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April 19, 2009

God is love and he watches over everyone. God is love and she loves everyone. HT: Eliacin
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Categories: Faith

★ blog.worship.com: Welcome to PoopedPastors.com

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April 16, 2009

When I was a pastor there were very few “safe places.” There were those who wanted to help me build a mega-church, double the giving, increase the vision, make me effective, etc., etc., But most of them had their own agendas and were often more interested in their agendas than…
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Categories: From Elsewhere

★ SOF Observed – A Culture of Availability to Everybody But…

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April 14, 2009

A Culture of Availability to Everybody But Yourself? Trent Gilliss, Online Editor Perhaps this TEDtalk gets at the heart of the matter. In the second half of our upcoming show with Jon Kabat-Zinn (first available in podcast on Thursday morning), he argues, to some degree, that the accelerated pace of…
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Categories: Family, Photography

tags: alzheimer’s, father, photojournalism

★ Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father

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April 14, 2009

This may be the most powerful photo essay ever created. I’ve probably even posted it here, but regardless, you’ll want to check it out again. It is the journal and photojournal of a son and his father who has no short-term memory (not Alzheimer’s, but it must be similar). Phillip…
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I’m Pat

Passionate about the common good, human flourishing, lifelong learning, being a good ancestor.

Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.

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