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Play: your heart has to be into it
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I just want to be left alone; but my daughter and I have this routine that involves her doing a lot of imaginative play. This, of course, extends into the afternoon. Every day. I worry about the times (like today) when my heart isn’t in it. When…
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Sunday’s fortune
This was my fortune from last night “you will have many friends when you need them.” I guess the only questions are these: 1) how are we going to know when that is? And 2) is everybody ready?
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Travels with Charlie
I’m currently on my first father/daughter trip. We flew back to Michigan to visit my sister before she moves to Germany and then stay with my parents for a few days. The weather in Michigan has been perfect–not at all the typical June: sunny, upper 70’s. I’m not sure what is more taxing: the travel…
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changing my name
Maybe I shouldn’t, but I just did. I changed the name of this blog. Same address, new name. The Original Name When I first started blogging with WordPress, I began with a simple notion: that our approach as the church in planning for the future was MAD (mutually-assured destruction). My argument (which I still believe)…
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New Management
The church, like the secular world, has a management problem: we are too focused on maintaining the status quo, that we are failing both our intentions and our desperate desire for maintenance. Perhaps the solution can be found in asking a different question.
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Being a bishop today
Today, so much is expected out of bishops, that they aren’t able to do any of those things.