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City helps to warm homeless Seattle residents and agencies help area homeless, including those in Nickelsville, prepare for a week of very cold weather. Kingdom Rain – Joel Osteen – Your Best Life Now: A Biblical Critique Vineyard pastor and theologian wrote a summary and critique of Joel Osteen's book…
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Continue reading →: ★ Letter to a Young Activist
Today, I was thinking about the cynicism which so easily overtakes me and which my wife busts my chops for. So I was praying a bit, then looking for a good written prayer about cynicism and doing a bit of wandering to see what I could find. I started thinking…
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Categories: Faith
★ External and Internal, thought from Merton
Continue reading →: ★ External and Internal, thought from MertonWhat was delivered to Moses on tablets of stone, as the fruit of lightning and thunder, is now more thoroughly born in our souls as quietly as the breath of our own being. “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings” (Thomas Merton)
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Andy Rowell | Church Leadership Conversations: Following Dan Kimball's Missional vs. Megachurch conversation An index to the ongoing conversation about missional church that began recently with Dan Kimball's post on Out of Ur
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Continue reading →: ★ Another Thought on Busyness
Via Bob at Pastorhacks “…Pastors and Christian leaders seem to be as caught up in the culture of busyness as anyone else. A full 65 percent of pastors (right up there with lawyers, managers and nurses) are among the most likely to rush from task to task in a way…
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NextReformation » habits of the heart Len writes: "In most of my writing post-Seabeck I viewed the creation of a missional order through the lens of covenant renewal (see this post as well as others). But there is another lens, equally valid and equally valuable: the lens of culture formation.…
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Continue reading →: ★ On Thomas Merton on the 40th anniversary of his death
Entry quoted in whole from inward/outward, an expression of Church of the Saviour in DC. By Joan Chittister December 10 is the 40th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death. There is a story that may best explain the influence and the place of Thomas Merton in contemporary society and spiritual development.…
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Continue reading →: ★ Socialism is OK, as long as the money goes to the wealthy
Today I saw a Chevy Excursion – that’s the biggest of the SUV’s – pumping gas in front of me at the gas station. Its bumper contained, on the right side, the Christian Icthus fish and bumper sticker advertisements for McCain, Palin and Dino Rossi (Republican candidate for governor of…
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::: alancreech ::: home ::: Handcrafted rosaries for sale Just in time for your gift-giving season, Alan Creech offers up some handmade prayer beads. I've ordered mine aready. (tags: prayer gifts christmas) The Simple Dollar » Family Traditions: What Children Really Want for Christmas Unplug the Christmas Machine by Jo…


