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Categories: Music
★ If you like classic jazz..
Continue reading →: ★ If you like classic jazz..A few years ago I blogged about meeting a jazz legend named Hadley Caliman. Hadley just released an album that you can download from Amazon MP3 here. I never write Amazon reviews – not enough time in the day – but for Hadley’s album I made an exception. Here’s what…
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Continue reading →: ★ Sounds like the lead line for a joke, but isn't
“So, an Irish Montanan and a Puerto Rican walk into a German bar…” I was thinking today about how that sounds like the setup for a joke, but it’s really just my Tuesday evening, hanging out with Eliacin at Die Bierstube in Seattle. We talked story, compared dreams, had a…
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Categories: Grad School
★ Following the Orthodox Trail
Continue reading →: ★ Following the Orthodox TrailIt looks as though I’ll be able to take the time away from work that I need for upcoming classes. That class list includes this course, titled Orthodox Trail: Byzantine Spirituality: This course helps the doctoral student understand the Eastern Orthodox Church history, spirituality, worship, liturgy and mission. The course…
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Continue reading →: ★ (Video) Who was St. Patrick?
Hmmm, turns out I can’t embed this directly, but perhaps you’d follow this link to an MSNBC.com video on St. Patrick: Not a bad little video!
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: Street Signs (Bakke/Sharpe)
As part of the educational process at Bakke Graduate University where I am pursuing a Doctor of Ministry, each class includes a big stack of reading. Students write 1-page summary papers on each book that they write. Here’s one of those papers on a book I read for an upcoming…
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Continue reading →: ★ Who I'd read if I had 2 years to devote to it
I was thinking today, as I sat down to do some book summary papers for my next class in the doctoral program, about all the books that are piling up that I want to read but are not on the list for my upcoming classes. There are a lot of…
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Categories: Faith
★ 39 Examen
Continue reading →: ★ 39 ExamenToday I turned 39 years old. It’s a good time, it seems to me, to take stock of my life. I’m doing it using a simple little spiritual exercise called the Ignatian Examen, described first by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatius founded the Jesuit order. A nice description of the…
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Categories: Faith
★ Effective Christian communities
Continue reading →: ★ Effective Christian communitiesRose Swetman is working on the thesis for her doctoral dissertation and writing about missional churches and leadership. In this entry, she writes about a trip she made to Church of the Savior in Washington, DC, and one of the sessions there which discussed effective Christian community. Bill (Haley) then…
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Categories: Faith
★ Church Factions in the East and West
Continue reading →: ★ Church Factions in the East and WestI’m reading Orthodox Alaska by Michael Oleska for an upcoming class. It’s the story of the Russian Orthodox church’s mission and evangelization into Alaska. The book makes an interesting comparison between the types of schisms that happen in the East and the West. Food for thought: In the West, divisions…
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Continue reading →: ★ I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
By Dawna Markova I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,…
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