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Renegades of Funk (Monday Mixtape)
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We’re the renegades we’re the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me As I said in my homily yesterday, the stuff that got Jesus…
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The Future of Seminary: Fix Dioceses
[Over on Patheos, they are doing a great series on the future of Seminary education. I haven’t read it all, and nobody asked me for advice, but I thought I’d throw in at least a couple of cents. Kurt Willems nails the economic burden and Tony Jones makes a compelling case for the very tools of…
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Forward living or backward obsessing?
My brain is intent on proving me wrong. More than a decade ago, when my two closest friends were living in East Lansing, I moved down to join them. Having only visited the apartment once or twice, and not knowing the area very well, I was confident that I knew the way to get there;…
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Defending the status quo?
Over at The Lead on Episcopal Cafe…
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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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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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“First, imagine this is bread…”
“…everybody got it? OK, because you’re never going to believe what else it is.” I found this picture online and that is the first thing that popped into my head. Jonny Baker, in his blog, directed his readers to an article in the Church of England Newspaper entitled “The Eucharist re-examined“. You’ll find the picture…
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into the wild
Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…