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Henry Neufeld has a great post at his blog: "Do We Live What We Believe? " He's been editing a book called The Jesus Paradigm , and has been reflecting on a statement in the book - "The key to church renewal is very simple: every follower of Jesus is to live what is believed."...
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Ever since I saw a short review of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love on Sarah Walker Cleaveland's blog, I have wanted to read it. I finally got around to it recently, and I'm so glad I finally did - an excellent, moving, thought-provoking book. The book follows Gilbert on a year-long personal...
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I've been giving some consideration to what Lenten Discipline I might take up for the season, or what I might 'give up' for Lent. 'Giving up' something is not a task I always take. My most 'successful' year was the year I gave up Diet Coke for Lent. Giving up soda provided...
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So try not to think about what might have been Cause that was then And we have taken different roads We can't go back again There's no use giving in And there's no way to know What might have been (Little Texas) As another new year begins, I've been thinking about the year that has just...
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I'm in a hurry to get things done, Oh I rush and rush until life's no fun. All I really gotta do is live and die but I'm in a hurry and don't know why. --Alabama A couple years ago , I included that refrain from one of my favorite Alabama songs in a blog post. It's been on my mind...
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In mid-October, I attended the Bishop's Convocation in my home conference, North Central New York . Our speaker was David Lowes Watson , a retired clergy person, seminary professor, and a Wesley/Methodism scholar. I really enjoyed the event (I always enjoy time with my colleagues), and I particularly...
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How do you keep the/a Sabbath? How did you start your Sabbath practices? What were your Sabbath practices growing up? When/why did they change? If you had total control over your schedule and ample time, what would be your ideal way of spending Sabbath?
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It seems I'm often a bit late in reading books in a topic/area that everyone else has already read. Oh well. I finally read Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus by Mark Yaconelli. And I'm so glad that I did - I can say, right off, that this is an excellent book, that...
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I read this interesting article from CNN's Fortune Magazine called, "The Next Credit Crunch." (by Geoff Colvin) The subtitle reads, "Our easy access to plastic is about to dry up - and with it our ability to fake living the good life." Excerpt: "For the past several years...
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I recently finished reading Rob Bell's short book, Sex God: Exploring the endless connections between sexuality and spirituality . This is a fairly short, very simple as in easy-to-read book. I guess (even my sentence is ambivalent) I didn't feel particularly strongly about the book either way...
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My brother just wrote three very good posts on the same day. Nuts and Bolts is a post about pacifism - how nice it is as an ideal, but how difficult it would be to practice completely. (For Jim at least...!) And Everywhere Marked with Crosses is a post about good people and suffering and how they usually...
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I finally got a chance to finish Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson while I was at jurisdictional conference last week. I had been reading Lisa's blog for a while (not even sure how I ever stumbled on it in the first place actually) and so asked for the book for Christmas. I got the book, but then it sat...
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Slacktivist has two great video clips up on his blog showing Obama and McCain speaking on the themes of religion and politics, particularly the separation of church and state. Fascinating.
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Just read this post at Bishop Willimon's blog , which concludes: "[This] story is far from unique. This is what happens when we really focus ourselves upon the priority of a new generation of Christians. I’m recommending that next year our entire Annual Conference be focused upon the single...
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When The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe came out in 2005 (can it have been that long ago already???), I was less than thrilled with the job done on putting one of my very favorite books on film. Still, as a dedicated fan, I felt obligated to check out the next installment in the Chronicles of Narnia...