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It has been a hard week with my son in the hospital with his first asthma attack and bronchitis. He’s home now, and on the road to recovery. Thanks for all of the prayers. In celebration, here’s another poem.
Baptism
Up the canyon, past the rock like a battle-
ship, past the fallen tree bridging
limestone walls, is a [...]
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I’ve been out at Laity Lodge for the past few days interacting with some absolutely incredible folks, talking about renewal through theology, psychology, and business.
One of the people here, Jozef Luptak plays cello like I’ve never heard. The first evening he played a piece from Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 (from the prelude, I [...]
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Image by two stout monks via Flickr
I really shouldn’t share confessional poems like this one.
At the Laity Lodge artists retreat, I met Jeffrey Scott Guy, an artist and pastor out of Atlanta. He shared some of his art one evening. (In the poem, I describe Parable #7 and Baptism.) Here is that conversation as I remembered [...]
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Image of Laity Lodge Family Camp at the H. E. Butt Foundation via Flickr
A few years ago, it was popular to talk about balancing work and family in a pretty weird way. People would say, “Quality time is more important than quantity time.”
Hogwash.
Don’t Worship Work or Family
Now, I love my work as much as anybody. [...]
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John Cobb has shared his work at Laity Lodge several times. His work is incredibly powerful. I wanted to play around with Animoto.com and thought I’d return to his work to see what happened. I’ve got ideas on how to tweak the video process quite a bit, but for now, this is a good first [...]
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Last week, I interviewed Michael Card when I was out at Laity Lodge. We’re looking to create a Laity Lodge podcast, and I’m exploring some tools here to see what that might look like for them. As a bonus, Sandy Wood of StarDate fame was also there, and she generously loaned us her voice for [...]
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My friend L. L. Barkat FINALLY discovered the beauty of Texas this past week at Laity Lodge. She also challenged Jim Martin and me to post something we had written while we were there. [UPDATE: my friend, Tod Bolsinger joined the game too, and here's a link to his post.]
L. L. posted about the stairs. [...]
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At Laity Lodge, we’ve had a close connection to J. I. Packer for many years. Every year, I get the chance to hear this man speak and open the Scripture. At first, his style seemed dry to me, but gradually I came to appreciate the incredible wisdom he has. One Laity Lodge director described listening [...]
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Another poem today.
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