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I’m coming home to WordPress for the first time.  I finally moved out of my blogspot location, having blogged off and on there since 2003.   But I decided to keep the same name, “for the time being.” When I originally decided to start blogging I was visiting a friend on an Indian Reservation in Zuni, […]

So a couple days ago J.R. Briggs offered some good tips on reading well. It spurred some good conversation. Well, I’m currently working on my comp. questions for at Marquette, and I thought that some of you all would be interested in what I have to read for my tests. So today, is my bibliography […]

What is spiritual leadership? What does it consist of, where does it come from, where does it propel us? Let me know because at Life on the Vine we have been thinking more and more about leadership development, and this has returned me to a classic from my college years (which, surprisingly, is over 10 […]

How do you understand and practice the ecclesial truth of the Family of God? And not just in the social sense that we, who practice faith in Christ, are part of a new reality, but that we truly have a Father with whom we can intimately converse. At Life on the Vine we speak of […]

oh, yeah a test. baby!

I can’t believe it, but it is true. One line from one song has temporarily redeemed Christian radio for me: “Late have I loved you.” Yes, that is right. There is a song played on KLOV which references St. Augustine’s Confessions. Here is the full excerpt for Augustine. Late have I loved you, O Beauty […]

In our organic leadership styles, and non-hierarchical organizations, where starfish grow and spiders flee, it is often heard that we must trust the community. We (leaders of some type) must learn to trust the community (and by that I mean individuals within the community) to work out its individual problems, sins, and issues. If leaders […]

“We are inclined to begin with the book, with historical context and social setting, words and idioms, grammar and literary forms, religious and theological vocabulary, and the many other topics that command our attention. But the early Christians began with the risen Christ.” by Robert Louis Wilken “Interpreting the New Testament,” Pro Ecclesia 14 (2005): […]

I know that I am guilty of this at some level. But I’m really stuck. I, and many at Life on the Vine, are both concerned for the poor locally and globally. And that is the rub. You see, I’m concerned about not participating in poverty creating or exploitative economic practices, and therefore try as […]