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Continue reading →: ★ Paradise Unpaved
Via twitters from both Onehouse and Beyond Magazine, here’s a story about a family in Toronto who decides to green up their life. First, they sell their car, and then they replace their driveway with a garden. But the city of Toronoto doesn’t like the idea of replacing a driveway…
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Continue reading →: ★ "Feeding the Beast"
Len just posted a blog entry at Nextreformation that I think is important to consider. A couple of years back Mike Bishop asked some great questions: “If you are reading this and have some vested interest in a community of faith – whatever your flavor, old-school or new-school, emerging or…
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Continue reading →: ★ Theology on a Cup
The Way I See It #293 The way I see it Isn’t necessarily The way you see it Or the way it is Or ought to be What’s more important Is that we’re all Looking for it And a way to see it — Desi Di Nardo Author and poet.…
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Continue reading →: ★ An Open Letter to my Wife of Fifteen Years
At the Pacific Science Center Originally uploaded by PatL Dear Bride, Fifteen years ago today, in that little outdoor place between Redmond and Fall City, on the only day that it didn’t rain in July that year, we were married. We had dated for three years before this, half of…
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Categories: Faith
★ Intro to the Missional Church class notes
Continue reading →: ★ Intro to the Missional Church class notesFor those of you who are interested in missional church, and especially those of you who lead such things and want to speak your church about them, go over to Todd Hiestand’s blog today and download the PDF file of the class he did with his church, The Well. It’s…
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Continue reading →: ★ Creating the Future, One Mustard Seed at a Time (The New Conspirators)
“The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine) I’ve just finished reading Tom Sine’s newest book, “The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine). It’s one that I’ve meant to read for a few months. However, having now…
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Continue reading →: ★ Why I am Terrified that God Has Blessed America
God as revealed in history is… the One who has elected Israel. The purpose of the election is service, and when this is withheld, election loses its meaning. Primarily Israel is to serve the marginal in its midst: the orphan, the widow, the poor, the stranger. Whenever the people of…
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Continue reading →: ★ Bosch on the God who Acts, and impact on Scripture
A few thoughts from “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission” (David Bosch): In Israel, history is the arena of God’s activity. The focus is on what God has done, is doing and is yet to do according to his declared intentions. God is… the God who acts. […]…
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Categories: Faith
★ A Celtic Prayer for Donating Blood
Continue reading →: ★ A Celtic Prayer for Donating BloodI love the everyday-ness of Celtic prayers that can be found in collections like Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael) . When you have a Christian spirituality that has prayers for milking cows, for giving birth, for putting on the hot water, you’re in my world. Today I donated blood. I thought…
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Continue reading →: ★ Haaaaappy
My 2yo learned to say a new word today. This one’s in direct competition with ‘no’ right now, although ‘no’ is still winning out.


