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Apr 25, 2012
Community Post: Belonging
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"I hope my pastors know that they can fail. They can make financial mistakes. They don’t have to lead perfect families. They can have doubts. They can end a service early or late. They can teach... Read More + |
Apr 19, 2012
Why Can't I Be Honest About My Work?
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I was picking up my daughter from Sunday School last week when another mother started cross-examining me about my job. We had met once or twice, and she didn’t realize I was a lawyer until my six... Read More + |
Jan 31, 2012
Hungering and Thirsting for Quiet
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And on the day they arrive at our doors, hungering and thirsting for something they cannot name, let them find us living in our deepest thoughts, practicing our ancient disciplines, dividing our... Read More + |
Jan 10, 2012
Falling into Open Arms
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I’ve decided that I’m in a child-like season, where I’m supposed to forget that I went to seminary and allegedly know what’s going on in church. I have fallen backwards into the wide arms of the... Read More + |
Oct 28, 2011
Rethinking Faith with David Kinnaman
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Earlier this month, David Kinnaman, president of the research company, The Barna Group, published You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church . . . and Rethinking Faith. In his book,... Read More + |
Aug 24, 2011
Community Post: Farther Along
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What if everything changed, and suddenly, "I love you" were the only words you could say? Writer Billy Coffey shares a beautiful story about what it means when life is reduced to its most... Read More + |
Dec 1, 2010
I Wish You Could See Her
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I wish you could see her as I see her, for I look at her with the eyes of a lover, a father, a child, and a connoisseur. The stories in her book, aged for millennia, have an archetypal patina... Read More + |
Oct 28, 2010
Spiritual Field Trip #2
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I wrote recently about my wife and I taking our children on a series of spiritual field trips to various churches. Having started by visiting a Greek Orthodox church, we thought we would take... Read More + |
Oct 21, 2010
Redeeming the Sermon
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“On the day named after the sun, we hold a meeting in one place for all who live in the cities or the country nearby. The memoirs of the apostles [the gospels] or the writings of the prophets... Read More + |
Sep 2, 2010
Spiritual Field Trips
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Have you ever considered going on a spiritual field trip?Do you remember how incredibly tedious school was when you were a teenager? Do you recall those eternally long days and weeks and months... Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Beauty as a Signpost to God, Part 2
The fact that we can perceive things as beautiful, I believe, points to the existence of a God who loves beauty and created us in his own image. I talked about this in yesterday's reflection. Yet... Read More +
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