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Categories: Faith
★ Three Lifegiving Priniciples (Monastic Vows)
Continue reading →: ★ Three Lifegiving Priniciples (Monastic Vows)As folks who’ve been reading here for a few months have noticed, my spiritual journey has taken me down a bit more structured path, and I’ve been talking a lot about religious orders, neo-monasticism, vows and Rules of Life. This post continues that trend and introduces monastic vows and what…
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Continue reading →: ★ Updated blog design
Thanks to WordPress design whiz Todd Hiestand, I’ve made some big changes around here to make this blog easier to read. I’m now using Todd’s theme called Lean and Clean, which is a 3-column, widget-ready theme done with Todd’s usual knack for very clean, visually appealing design. Todd plans to…
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Categories: Faith
★ Rose Madrid-Swetman over at Jesus Creed
Continue reading →: ★ Rose Madrid-Swetman over at Jesus CreedMy friend and mentor Rose write today on JesusCreed.org’s ongoing series of pastoral wisdom about “if you could begin all over again, what would you do differently?” Rose co-pastors a church that I highly respect, and her post is well worth reading. An excerpt: Scot: If you could begin all…
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Continue reading →: ★ The Multiracial Congregation – a few thoughts
My current read is “United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race” . In the introduction, the authors establish their thesis: “Christian congregations, when possible, should be multiracial.“ The definition of a multiracial church – and the rarity of such a thing – is…
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Continue reading →: ★ Remaining Books for Overture I
I’ve finally caught up! I’ve written summaries of all the books I’ve already read. Here’s the remaining to-read pile (one of these might go away – I don’t need to read all of them for the class’s total page count), but I want to read them all. So upcoming are…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: King Leopold's Ghost (Hochschild)
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochshild Houghton Mifflin (1998) 225 pages Description of the Book King Leopold II of Belgium’s colonial claim to the African Congo at the turn of the 18th to 19th century came amidst other colonial expansion into Africa. Through the early 20th century, the Belgian Congo…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: Orthodox Alaska (Oleska)
Orthodox Alaska by Michael Oleska St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (1992) 225 pages Description of the Book The Christianization of native Alaska is the story of conflicting cultures (American and Russian), theologies (Protestant and Orthodox), and approaches to the native cultures. The book discusses the historical background of orthodoxy, the Russian…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: sub-merge (Hayes) – with video summary
Part of my doctoral program’s learning model includes reading and summarizing a large number of books. I’ll blog the appropriate ones here. Note – at the end of this post I also include a brief summary video via Seesmic. Let me know if this is helpful for you. I won’t…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: The Call (Guinness)
Part of my doctoral program’s learning model includes reading and summarizing a large number of books. I’ll blog the appropriate ones here. The Call by Os Guinness HarperBusiness (2001) 200 pages Description of the Book “Are you looking for purpose in life? For a purpose big enough to absorb every…


