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The Church and Rolling Jubilee
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Continue reading →: The Church and Rolling JubileeA short while ago, I heard about Rolling Jubilee, the Occupy Movement’s newly launched plan to collectively buy distressed debt, much like speculative traders have been in recent years, but to pay it off and set the debtor(s) free. You can read more at Rolling Jubilee. The idea is getting…
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Continue reading →: The most important thing we learn at school…
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school. Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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Continue reading →: Gardening and Beauty
Henry Mitchell, in his book One Man’s Garden, observes that “it is not important for a garden to be beautiful” in everyone’s eyes. But “it is extremely important for the gardener to think it is a fair substitute for Eden.” Perhaps this is an overstatement, or perhaps it is a…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 3386Originally posted on Godspace: Large candle The following liturgy was provided by John Birch, a Methodist Lay Preacher and worship leader living in Wales for around 20 years. He has become increasingly aware of the rich heritage handed down by the early Christian Saints who set up home in the…
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Continue reading →: Links for Nov 21, 2012
I’m back with more links! Here are some good articles worthy of your attention over the next few days (and the long holiday weekend for those of you in the USA) Identity and the Inner Life: Sisters, Speak – Rachel Held Evans (…because a reporter asked what I would…
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Continue reading →: Spud on the Church and Politics
My childhood buddy, Ron Sanders (Spud), preached two weekends ago at the Vineyard church in the (Monterey) Peninsula. His subject was religion and politics. I’m downloading this now for listening on my commute home and haven’t listened to this yet, but I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll want to…
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Links for Nov 9, 2012
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Continue reading →: Links for Nov 9, 2012It’s been a while since I did this, but after I saw a good set from John Chandler and learned how he processed them, I thought I’d try to get back in the habit of sharing what I’m reading. These would make fine weekend reading. Most of them are longer…
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Continue reading →: What I Think // What I Say
If my reading and search skillz don’t deceive me, the following was drawn by a designer named Mohamed Ghonemi. It’s a pretty accurate description of introverts, my (highly extroverted) wife and I agree 🙂
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Reading List for Celtic Spirituality course
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Continue reading →: Reading List for Celtic Spirituality courseSomeday soon I’ll finish up the main post introducing the next course I’m teaching at The Seattle School. Briefly, though, I’ll be teaching SFD 526: Celtic Spirituality this coming spring. It’s a spiritual formation course that looks at Celtic Christianity’s unique flavor. We will be using these books in…
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Continue reading →: Fr. Richard Rohr on Spiritual Direction and Peacemaking
For Prayer Class, Week 10, we’re looking at spiritual direction and soul-friendship. My approach will be to explore the benefits of having a trusted guide, friend, with-mate on the journey of faith along with us. I’m of the belief that without somebody giving us help from an unbiased (or less-biased)…


