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Sep 29, 2011

How to Live in This Economy

Ann Voskamp

On a Monday during piano lessons, I just sit with the dead at the cemetery.  Is there such a thing as a sustainable economy of the soul in this industrial world addicted to speed? Only a wind from the west moves through the granite stones....

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Apr 15, 2011

Community Post: How to Make Space for Good Thinking

Jim Martin

"As one who speaks and writes regularly, I find it critical to find space to think and create. When I am not doing this, I see and feel the difference," says network-member and pastor Jim Martin. Read his ideas on how to be more creative!

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Mar 31, 2011

Community Post: I Hate PowerPoint

Glynn Young

PowerPoint presentations are meant to visually move people to action....

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Mar 24, 2011

Community Post: Giving the Emotions a Rest

Glynn Young

Sometimes, we need to look away for a while. We just do.

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Nov 4, 2010

The Work of a Poem

L.L. Barkat

I was going to write about the Sears catalog. Or maybe it was J.C. Penny's. When I was a kid, I studied the Holiday Catalog for a whole month before Christmas. Circling, tabbing, dreaming....

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Jun 1, 2010

What Gets In Your Head

Erik Wesner

We are bombarded every day by messages, mostly negative, that can impact our frame of mind. What would happen if we took a little more control over what gets in to our heads?

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May 21, 2010

Beyond Physical Rest

Ed Gungor

Though rest has an important physical dimension, it’s about more than a good night’s sleep, more than mere physical recuperation. Rest has vital psychological and spiritual dimensions to it as well. If we don’t get adequate rest for our souls, we start to break down....

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May 12, 2010

The Rest of Your Life

Ed Gungor

Learning to work well is great, but working well is not sufficient to create a balanced life; we must also learn how to stop working. That's called rest. The Hebrews called it taking a Sabbath, and it was on God's Top Ten List....

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Mar 3, 2010

Playing Hooky

Billy Coffey

Teaching my son how to play hooky won't win me Dad of the Year, but it will teach him a valuable lesson.

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Aug 9, 2009

Seasons of Hard Work and Seasons of Rest

by Anonymous
The High Calling

Marcus here. Two weeks ago, Timothy Dalrymple of Patheos interviewed me about faith and work. It was strange being treated like an expert. I don't think I am, but it has been great fun to work closely with Howard Butt and meet some of the experts in this field like David Miller, D....

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