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Categories: Faith
★ Rules and Monastic Life (Urban Iona Part 6)
Continue reading →: ★ Rules and Monastic Life (Urban Iona Part 6)Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. From chapter 22: The writing of a Rule of life seemed to be the natural step [in Neilson’s return to his parish church after his pilgrimage]. Monastic life is an old phenomenon in the Church. It was the effort…
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Continue reading →: ★ Being Church, Doing Church, and the fall of Empire (Urban Iona Part 5)
Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. From chapter 20: A great deal of talk and writing goes into diagnosing why many ways of “being church” and “doing church” either don’t work anymore, or even if they work the result looks and feels more like American…
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Categories: Faith
★ Hunger for Community (Urban Iona Part 4)
Continue reading →: ★ Hunger for Community (Urban Iona Part 4)Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. From chapter 16: Many of us, I most certainly, hunger for something fresh and new and challenging and not convenient, not accommodated to the culture of this or any other bygone day. I crave a faith and a community…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-21
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Categories: Faith
★ Fun Aside (Urban Iona)
Continue reading →: ★ Fun Aside (Urban Iona)Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. Here is more proof that Kurt Neilson is in fact one of the voices in my head :-): For all my prattling about the Celts, there is a Benedictine part of my soul as well – I co-founded a…
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Continue reading →: ★ The Attraction of Monasticism: Urban Iona Quotes, Part 2
Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. In Chapter 5, Neilson writes about his experience as a Catholic anda former member of the Claretian missionary order. As I sought community, the ideal of a common project of life, a common vision, and living it out day…
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Continue reading →: ★ Choice Quotes about Celtic Monasticism and Celtic Spirituality – Part 1
Earlier this week I wrote an entry recommending “Urban Iona: Celtic Hospitality in the City” (Kurt Neilson) . I did lots of highlightiing and notetaking in this book, which looks dog-eared already even though it’s only been through one read with me. I’m hard on books I guess :-). In…
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Continue reading →: ★ Urban Celtic Spirituality: Urban Iona (Kurt Neilson)
I recently finished reading a great little book that I’ve been trying for months to sneak in between books for classes. It’s this one: “Urban Iona: Celtic Hospitality in the City” (Kurt Neilson) Urban Iona is the story of a Portland Oregon based Episcopalian priest who pilgrimages to Celtic lands…
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Continue reading →: ★ Prepare the Way
Tonight in our small group we talked about the ways that we’re hoping to grow in our faith during this season. Although we’re all at different places in our faith walk, we’re all seeking something, responding to something and hoping for something. We’re longing for something more and better. This…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-20
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