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A fascinating article over at InsideWork got my attention in the inbox today. Geoff Finch titled it “A High Calling: Are Some Jobs Holier Than Others?” Since I’m Senior Editor for TheHighCalling.org and HighCallingBlogs.com, that got my attention.
Geoff tells the story of his friend “Stephen” who faced a career choice. He could either join an [...]
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The last of my 3 part zombie theology series.
I finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last night, surprised at how good it was. Every English teacher ought to buy this book. Really. It is perfect for tone analysis. I expected a somewhat lame, spoofy inside joke. In fact, I was shocked at how well the [...]
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This morning, I was greeted by little encouragement from The Jazz Theologian (Robert Gelinas). I dropped by his site, wished I could go to Finding the Groove Live!, and settled for reading some excerpts from his new book.
The back of the book says, “A jazz-shaped faith … balances freedom with boundaries, the individual with the [...]
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Yesterday Publisher’s Weekly posted a short interview with David Plotz, editor of Slate, about his new book coming out next week. It’s called Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.
Sounds fun? I suspect you can get a pretty accurate [...]
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Over at One Man Revival, High Calling Blogger Frank Jenkins is thinking through the divisions between church culture and the wider culture.
His most recent post Hate, Hate, Hate, The Epilogue asks a pretty blunt question to Christians:
…what are things that bug or irritate you about the church not your own specifically, but in general? What [...]
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“You don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus?” my wife asks.
“How can I!” I say. “I’ve never seen Jesus. I’m not talking about some kind of metaphysical conversion experience. I’m not talking about Jesus in others, least of these kind of stuff.”
“Then what are you talking about?”
It’s not a real conversation. Its staged. Part of [...]
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A million years ago when I wrote that pens should be mightier than toilet plungers, A Musing Mom commented, “Some truth stinks and we really don’t need to read the smelly stuff.”
That’s a comment that stuck with me. Because it’s such a tricky thing. See, I’m a big fan of Keats:
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, [...]
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My buddy Mark D. Roberts linked to me today. What a guy! He’s just finished a series on praying in public venues. You can read the story of my brother-in-law’s chaplaincy in high school over at Mark’s post for today.
And Mark’s link got me thinking about taking our faith public.
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