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My friend Tina who runs the blog tour spot is doingan event for Keri Wyatt Kent’s book Rest: Living in Sabbath Simplicity. I have not read the book–though I enjoy Sabbath books because I’m particularly bad about resting.
See, I do [...]
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Business as Mission Network has posted a very interesting article last week: Acknowledging Faith in the Workplace – Jon Vanverloch of Google (hattip: Transforming Marketplace Ministry). Reading through Jon’s thoughts and verses, I found myself nodding my head in agreement and wanting to hear more. I wanted Jon to tell [...]
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I had a conversation with Jennifer of Getting Down With Jesus awhile back, and it’s stuck with me. We were thinking about worship. That’s a phrase that has been woefully corrupted by our institutional churches in my mind.
Don’t get me wrong. I love singing. But worship pastors are a lot more [...]
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Yesterday I was taking a break with one of my favorite things: Tazo China Green Tips Tea. I also like Yogi Tea. So I started wondering why “the zen of tea” feels trendy and cool, even “yogi tea” makes me smile without feeling threatened, but “the Jesus of tea” would feel [...]
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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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Over at Catapult Magazine, I left a multi-paragraph rant in the Life Abundant discussion:
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The Church today seems to function like a market economy. Every church provides specific products and services. They have unique storefronts. They have their own branding campaigns. Choosing a church in my town is exactly like choosing a grocery store. [...]
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Sometimes when we talk about faithful Christians who are serving God through their work, we conjure up images of pastors and counselors, teachers who share their faith, doctors who have Christian books in their waiting rooms, or business people who print fish on their business cards and billboards. Of course, there is nothing wrong with [...]
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It’s been a rough year for my family as we rethink Church, our theology, and the purpose of community. If that makes it sound like everything is on the table at our house, well, it is.
A few Sundays ago, with the blessing of our current pastors, we began visiting other churches to get a sense [...]
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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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