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Many of us in the emerging church or missional conversations can become wary, disillusioned, and disappointed with the church. It moves so slowly. It changes imperceptibly. It squashed innovation ruthlessly (unless it is innovation of basically the same thing). Many times it seems that we can’t break out of the status quo without a serious […]

So I’m preaching this week on living together in Christ, and I need your help. What keeps us from living in the peace of Christ, the peace that IS Christ himself? What breaks up the unity of the Spirit in believers? I’ll be preaching on Eph. 2:11-22, of which 2:14 says, “For [Christ] himself is […]

So it is the first week of school, and I didn’t have time for a real post about compelling Science Fiction, so I went the Sci-Fi route of bad christian jokes. For me, this is how not to engage middle school boys.

Ok, now I know this is a bit of a rant, but really, do we need to be SO ORGANIC, or rather ANIMALIC in our theology? We all want to exhibit Organic Leadership, but now we have jumped from biology to zoology. I starfish and spiders (the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations) have become all […]

One Artby Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and […]

The New Hampshire Public Radio has just run a story about No Sweat Apparel. Check it out. Cyd and I have been buying shoes ans shirts from them for a while. Quality, well made stuff. And responsible too.

I’m very much looking forward to Obama’s acceptance speech tonight. And seeing the reaction from various fronts. It is good to be living into these moments. And as a contrast, living into the Russo-Georgian ‘war’ also seema to be a moment in 21st century global politics. America might get its first Black President, and Russia […]

“I think that any sermon on the salvation of the soul, on love of the poor, any so-called eucharistic ritual, any evangelical discourse that doesn’t concern itself with saving the earth and its natural resources, is perverted. How can certain men and women repeat the words “This is my body, this is my blood” over […]

Some great posts on christian politics, or on not always as christian as we might think. “Not Voting” as an Act of Christian Discernment– by Dave FitchChanging the Wind?– over at Jesus ManifestoAdvise Everyone…Endorse No One– by Shane Claiborne

Posting these days gets more difficult, esp. with learning German and working on some articles. Although I have set up a facebook account, finally, and mostly living through that cyber-portal.