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Continue reading →: Recently
This week I blogged over at a shared blog that’s founded by one of my teachers, Jon Sharpe. City Consultations looks at signs of God’s hope in urban contexts. I wrote here on the topic of exegeting Seattle by photography, and included a few recent pictures from my exploration of…
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Continue reading →: ★ Yearning of the Ocean
A quote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Quoted in The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church)
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Continue reading →: Yearning of the Ocean
A quote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Quoted in The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church)
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Continue reading →: ★ What I Seek
I took this image this morning, driving back home from the trip to Mt. Angel Abbey. It struck me deeply – as the former pastor of Mt. Si Vineyard Church – that this vineyard is fully dormant and appears dead. Spring will come. I seek a path through the dead…
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Continue reading →: What I Seek
I took this image this morning, driving back home from the trip to Mt. Angel Abbey. It struck me deeply – as the former pastor of Mt. Si Vineyard Church – that this vineyard is fully dormant and appears dead. Spring will come. I seek a path through the dead…
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Continue reading →: ★ A Weekend with the Benedictines
I spent this weekend on an individual retreat at Mt. Angel Abbey in Mt. Angel, Oregon. The Abbey is a Benedictine men’s monastery, and they happened to have a room available on short notice for me to come visit and pray with the monks. As I’ve mentioned here previously, I…
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Continue reading →: A Weekend with the Benedictines
I spent this weekend on an individual retreat at Mt. Angel Abbey in Mt. Angel, Oregon. The Abbey is a Benedictine men’s monastery, and they happened to have a room available on short notice for me to come visit and pray with the monks. As I’ve mentioned here previously, I…
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Continue reading →: ★ God’s Voice on My First Day in Recovery
I haven’t yet had the inclination, energy or time to write about this, but – yesterday was the last worship gathering for Mt. Si Vineyard. Our church has shut its doors and we are helping our folks to process the change as we continue to meet as a small group…
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Continue reading →: God’s Voice on My First Day in Recovery
I haven’t yet had the inclination, energy or time to write about this, but – yesterday was the last worship gathering for Mt. Si Vineyard. Our church has shut its doors and we are helping our folks to process the change as we continue to meet as a small group…
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Continue reading →: ★ Apropos of everything right now
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down…
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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