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May 7, 2012

Naked Tennis Ball Follow-Up

Laity Lodge Pilgrim

The Laity Lodge Pilgrim is going back to Laity Lodge to find the naked tennis ball he wrote about a few weeks ago. He has asked us for suggestions about what to do with it if he finds it...

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Apr 25, 2012

Community Post: Belonging

ed cyzewski

"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...

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Feb 28, 2012

Q Live Stream Event: Featuring Eugene Peterson with Gabe Lyons

Sam Van Eman

Friends from Q Ideas are hosting a live stream event with Eugene Peterson tomorrow, Wednesday, February 29, from 10:45-11:45 a.m. EST.  Peterson is a long-time friend of The High Calling, having...

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Dec 5, 2011

When Love Is an Action

laura boggess

I have watched how they go these past weeks. Soaring and diving, turning and landing—a migration ballet. I stand in the middle of the street with my neck arched upward for dizzying moments. When...

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Nov 30, 2011

Spectacles of Awe - in the Backyard

Glynn Young

Michelle DeRusha thought the ideal vacation would be spending a week of silence with Carthusian monks. (She must be a mom.) When that wasn’t possible, she did the next best thing. She set...

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Nov 24, 2011

Jesus Smells Like Murphy's Oil Soap

laura boggess

I don’t know why I came. Many reasons, I suppose—obligation, guilt, habit. Whatever it is, I give up my Saturday morning for it. Meet this ragtag group to pitch in and clean up our church. I...

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Nov 22, 2011

What Was I Thinking When I Signed up for the Food Retreat?

Laity Lodge Pilgrim

I’m at this retreat listening to Cliff and Christine Warner talk about their family with its wonderful Sabbath tradition of sharing carefully planned meals with their children...They seem to be...

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Oct 27, 2011

The Work of a Pastor

Gordon Atkinson

One of our sister organizations in the Foundation is Laity Lodge, a retreat center in the Hill Country of Texas. They have an anonymous blogger known only as "Pilgrim." He recently posted a...

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Oct 22, 2011

Community Post: Twenty Men Fixing a Road

Glynn Young

Given that I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and work often in the Washington area, it’s not uncommon for me to drive on Interstates 81 and 66, often while on the way to participate in...

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Oct 5, 2011

Integrating Faith and Psychiatry, Part 4: Work & the Self

Christine A. Scheller

Eric had leadership written all over him. Intelligence, good looks, and interpersonal drive had led to an MBA at a major university. When his first business venture failed, he was on to another...

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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge

Add to the Beauty

During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +