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Continue reading →: ★ With, not For
One of Grace’s points is: With not For As we walk together with others in their faith journey, we walk in mutual relationships, both giving of ourselves and receiving from them. … We develop relationships of commitment, to be with them in their journey rather than to simply show up…
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Continue reading →: ★ Missionary Model: St. Aidan of Lindisfarne (Late on the Missional Synchroblog bandwagon)
St. Aidan and Pat on Lindisfarne Originally uploaded by patl Today, Monday June 23 is a “What Is Missional?” Syncroblog event. I didn’t get signed up in time to be on the official roll call list, but that doesn’t stop me from tagging along at the end anyway 🙂 I’ve…
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Continue reading →: ★ Following the Celtic Trail wordle
On a whim, I created a Wordle for my whole paper for the Following the Celtic Trail course for my D. Min at Bakke Graduate University. Click through for best effect, and go create some wordles for yourself.
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Categories: Faith
★ Places of Resurrection
Continue reading →: ★ Places of ResurrectionSkellig Michael Originally uploaded by Mixmaster One of my favorite aspects of Celtic Christianity is how the spiritual life is understood to be a journey that nobody completes in this life. While we in the US speak of belief and claiming Christ as savior and Lord – and often point…
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Categories: Uncategorized
★ Featured on Next-Wave
Continue reading →: ★ Featured on Next-WaveVery fun news – Bob and Charlie and the crew at Next Wave.magazine picked up the article that I wrote here titled “Things They Tell Church Planters That Are Simply Wrong” and which has been generating a good deal of traffic and comments. The article is in the current issue…
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Continue reading →: ★ Mini-Meme: Next iTunes lyric with spiritual meaning
It’s Friday! Wanna do another meme? Pay attention to the lyrics on the song you’re now listening to, or start your player on shuffle. What’s the first lyric that grabs your attention due to its spiritual meaning? And why does that one catch your attention today of all days? Here’s…
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Continue reading →: ★ St. Patrick tells you why I blog
In Patrick’s self-written Confessio , he writes this: I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire. So, that’s why I blog. To share my imperfections and my journey through them,…
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Categories: Faith
★ N. T. Wright on Colbert Report Thursday
Continue reading →: ★ N. T. Wright on Colbert Report ThursdayAttention! Put down your beers, your weapons, your systematic theology texts, and most especially your Left Behind books, and find out the channel and broadcast time for the Colbert Report on Thursday, June 19. The world’s greatest theologian, N. T. Wright (he of the ‘what REALLY happens after we die?’…
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Continue reading →: ★ Interview with Jack Mboya, pastor in Nairobi's slums
Last night we had some friends over to meet Jack, my friend from Nairobi and classmate at Bakke Graduate University. As he was telling his story, I took a few pictures and then used my little digicam’s movie recording mode to put together a few segments. It’s not the best…
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Continue reading →: ★ Please, get up off your knees
Hat tip: Keck (I’d never seen this vid before, or heard the song).
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I’m Pat
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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