tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58400912012-01-30T13:26:13.684-08:00Christian. Quaker. Progressive.Danny Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509668925991793878noreply@blogger.comBlogger6041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840091.post-48544328524990798892012-01-30T13:26:00.000-08:002012-01-30T13:26:13.689-08:00

I don't care for the provocative title, but this is an outstanding essay by Fred Clark about the nature of church.Mark Driscoll is a wee little man

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I want to see this film. It was featured at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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So Alaska Airlines has just announced that they will no longer be giving out scripture cards with meals on their flights, out of concern for causing some people offense. Fair enough, but what I find offensive is being forced to listen to a credit card sales pitch every time I fly.

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Kinnon has written an excellent "blow-by-blow" analysis of Justin Brierley's controversial interview with Mark Driscoll. His description is spot-on.http://kinnon.tv/2012/01/the-interview-was-it-of-the-undisciplined-or-undiscipled.html

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Seattle's resident bully pastor has stirred up controversy again after referring to UK Bible teachers as "a bunch of cowards" and "men in dresses preaching to grandmas" in an interview given to Justin Brierley of the British magazine Christianity. In response to the hoopla, Driscoll attempted to clarify in a post on his website in which he referred to the interview as "the most disrespectful,

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From his autobiography:

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Somebody left the gate openYou know we got lost on the wayCome save us, a runaway trainGoing insane How do we not fade away?

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This is eye-opening and unsettling. I appreciate how what began as the study of theology led to empathizing with the lowest, advocating for justice and speaking truth to power.

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I fly a lot and so, unfortunately, have had many "interactions" with the TSA (and I have yet to go through the full-body-scanners). This article by Christopher Elliot, entitled 12 New Year's Resolutions For The TSA In 2012 speaks my mind. Rebecca Hains, the college professor who was in the news recently when the TSA confiscated her cupcake, put it well when she said, "It's not really about the

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Today is the anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance.From the Bowne House Historical Society: "On December 27, 1657, Edward Hart wrote a letter on behalf of his fellow townsmen. He was town clerk for Vlissengen [now known as Flushing], and with the authority vested in his office he spoke for all the inhabitants of the settlement. Though the law of New Netherlands [now known as New York] demanded

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“Several years ago there was a well-known pastor who openly, publicly had a number of issues that he was against, both morally and spiritually and politically. He was loud and outspoken about these particular issues. It turns out that one of the issues he was most vocally opposed to was something that he himself had struggled with and been engaged in for a number of years. Upon this being

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The Role of Women in the Church: 1 Timothy 2:11-15 and 1 Corinthians 14:33-40 revisitedBy Danny ColemanA few years ago I embarked on in-depth research into the topic of women’s roles in the church. There were three reasons I undertook this study:1. It occurred to me that the Body of Christ is about two-thirds female. What I mean by this is if you look at most church services you will find that

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"Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope, and forgiveness. If that little girl in the picture can do it, ask yourself: Can you?”— Kim Phúc (The

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A war that never should have been, finally comes to an end.

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My blogging output has slowed to a trickle in recent months, due to my school-work load at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. One of my courses this semester has been on Missional Ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is the study of the church: What is the church? What makes church church? What are the various expressions of the church? The Missional part has to do with exploring what the mission of the

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"The fundamental renewal which the Society of Friends needs today must arise out of a deeper reality in worship. Apart from this basic essential, various promotional programs will avail but little." -- Seth Hinshaw, Friend's Worship Today: Contemporary Concepts and Practices

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(from http://frimmin.com/faith/mysticismintro.php)To know God directly shows that mysticism is different from any passive or legalistic kind of Christianity. It means: That while we honor the Scriptures, we want to know God directly, not just through Scripture. While we respect our heritage of teachings about God, we want to know God directly, not through doctrines and teachings. While

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[I originally posted this on December 7th, 2010] Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I grew up under the impression--based mostly upon movies--that this was an unprovoked, surprise attack. As an adult, I began studying World Wars I and II more closely, with a particular interest in trying to understand why they occurred. What I learned about the Pearl Harbor

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My friend Patty runs a great ministry called Peace Through Pieces that facilitates trauma healing for women in central Africa through quilt making. She is raising funds for a ministry trip to Burundi in February to continue the work. You can read her latest newsletter and see pictures and videos here: http://www.northseattlefriends.org

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I am convinced that if the Gospel story were to have happened today instead of 2,000 years ago and in the U.S. instead of Judea; Jesus would be a migrant worker from Mexico.

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I have not been blogging much in recent months. My schoolwork load at George Fox Evangelical Seminary has used up most of my spare time and my writing mojo. One of my courses this semester has been on Missional Ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is the study of the church: What is the church? What makes church church? What are the various expressions of the church? The Missional part has to do

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"If men and women today began by the thousands experiencing the depths of Jesus Christ in a transforming way, there would simply be no place for their expression of experience to fit into the present-day straitjackets of Christianity. Protestant or Catholic, neither one is structured to contain a mass of devoted people who long for spiritual depth. We are structured towards infancy."-Gordon Cosby

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I'm heading to the hardware store to get some wood shims!

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(My Old Testament professor shared this poem today and I thought it was beautiful...)Questions About AngelsBy Billy CollinsOf all the questions you might want to askabout angels, the only one you ever hearis how many can dance on the head of a pin.No curiosity about how they pass the eternal timebesides circling the Throne chanting in Latinor delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earthor

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Sure, it's propaganda, but it's quite entertaining and does contain some truth:

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Many of my Christian friends are uncomfortable with Halloween because of its "pagan" history and "Satanic" overtones, but here is a much better reason to be concerned: Are we exploiting children in Africa in order to give treats to our own children?

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From Rachel Held Evans' blog... Ask a Quaker: The Responseshttp://rachelheldevans.com/ask-a-quaker-response

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Popular blogger Rachel Held Evans features a Q&A with a Quaker:Ask a Quaker...

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"O Luther, thou hadst 95 theses--terrible! And yet, in a deeper sense, the more theses, the less terrible. This case is far more terrible: there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament simply does not exist. Here there is nothing to reform; what has to be done is to throw light upon a criminal offense against Christianity, prolonged through centuries, perpetrated by millions

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Theologian and pastor Greg Boyd talks about the effect that Constantine had upon Christendom. Good stuff!http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

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Once upon a time a man climbed down into a well,He thought the rope was long enough to reach all the way down,But his feet had not touched bottom when the rope came to an endSo he hung there in the darkness, too tired to climb back up again,How far would he fall if he would just let go?In the darkness there was no way to know,So using all his strength; with all of his power,He held on for several

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And discovers something ever deeper...Journeys of a Religious Misfit, Part 2: Accidental Fences

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This is a short, but deeply insight video featuring author, speaker and Episcopal priest Ian Morgan Cron talking about the power of silence in worship. Quote: "The future of the church is in silence." Silence

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I went and saw Higher Ground tonight and really liked it. It was poignant and funny and at times hit very close to home. There were conversations and scenes that seemed eerily familiar from my own years as a fundamentalist Christian. But it was also respectful of its subjects and their earnestness. They were not made into caricatures. It did not mock, but it did gently poke and prod.

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I used to think that following Jesus was like being a guided missile: I needed to act; to do something; to get moving, and eventually the guidance system would kick in. As a result of this approach, I spent years going in circles and also caused a fair bit of destruction (as missiles tend to do). Later I learned to be still; to wait; to listen for God and then to simply be obediant and faithful

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One of my favorite radio programs is Radiolab. It is intelligent, quirky and often surprising. This is one of their best episodes, which recounts the story of the broadcast(s) of The War of the Worlds and what it tells us about media manipulation. (function(){var s=function(){__flash__removeCallback=function(i,n){if(i)i[n]=null;};window.setTimeout(s,10);};s();})();

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This extraordinary PBS documentary reveals the results of a groundbreaking six-year Gallup research project in which tens of thousands of Muslims across the world were interviewed to develop an accurate picture of how Muslims really think about various topics. Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think - Watch the Documentary Film for Free | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms

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I did not realize that there is a cage fighting movement among Christians! Apparently, some churches in the U.S. are turning to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as a way of trying to get more men interested in coming to church. I am not surprised to find that Mark Driscoll of Seattle's Mars Hill Church is among those on the MMA bandwagon. Here is a fascinating and insightful essay from a former MMA

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"At the still point, there the dance is..." -- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton I became a follower of Jesus Christ in my early twenties. Prior to that, I vacillated between atheism and agnosticism. God was, for me, mostly irrelevant. Then, as the result of a series of experiences, I became a Christian. Christianity is, therefore, the only religion I have ever belonged to. Despite that, I have

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When I was in my early 20's, I became a Christian. My conversion occurred apart from any church or evangelistic activity. Quite the contrary, it happened while I was on the road playing in bars as a member of a heavy metal band. I had been raised in a non-religious home and prior to becoming a Christian--as well as for some time afterwards--I knew almost nothing about Christianity. I barely

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"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."Shakespeare’s description, voiced by Macbeth, of the futility of life reminds me of how we in modern times live our lives enveloped in the continuous noise of TV and music and talk radio and email and the web and social networking and advertising. There is lots of sound and fury; much of it signifying nothing.I’ve been

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"Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love, lives in God. Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another." -- William Penn

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"For the experience of Presence is the experience of peace, and the experience of peace is the experience not of inaction but of power, and the experience of power is the experience of pursuing Love that loves its way untiringly to victory. The one who knows the Presence knows peace, and the one who knows peace knows power and walks in complete faith that that objective Power and Love which has

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I have a good eye and a bad eye. When I was a kid they said I had a "lazy eye". My good eye gets about 20/30 (I said it was my good eye, not my great eye). I don't recall what my bad eye last tested at, except that it was depressingly weak and cannot be corrected. I cannot read with it, for example, unless the fonts are huge.When I was 14 years old I almost lost my good eye. The only thing

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Silence on the outside.Stillness on the inside.Nothing is happening.Everything is happening.Stripped to the bone.Settled as a stone.Yet exposed like a leaf to the wind.

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I finally got around to seeing 'Of Gods and Men'. What a beautiful and deeply spiritual film.

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Amen!Dear Church, | Ten Insights on the glbt Christian Dialogue

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This is perhaps the best thing I've ever read on the topic of how churches should approach the question of inclusion of people who are gay and lesbian. It was written in 2004 by New Testament scholar Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat, who is a colleague of N.T. Wright.You can read it, in PDF format, here: http://empireremixed.files.wor​dpress.com/2011/01/welcoming-the-gentiles.pdf

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I'm reading the book Holy Silence by J. Brent Bill, which is an excellent contemplation on the Quaker practice of quietness. In the portion I was reading this evening, St. Arsenius is quoted: "I have often repented of speech, but never of silence." It reminded me of an experience I once had:Twenty years or so ago, when Carla and I were part of the Vineyard (a charismatic Christian movement),

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Here is a link to a terrific lecture by Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat & Dr. Brian Walsh--associates of N.T. (Tom) Wright and authors of 'Colossians Remixed'--on the economic meaning of following Jesus. You will never read the story of Zacchaeus and the parable of the Talents in Luke 19 the same way again.http://www.wheaton.edu/media/BITH/100416WalshKeesmaat.html

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Holy is the dish and drainThe soap and sink, the cup and plateAnd the warm wool socks, and the cold white tileShowerheads and good dry towelsAnd frying eggs sound like psalmsWith a bit of salt measured in my palmIt’s all a part of a sacramentAs holy as a day is spentHoly is the busy streetAnd cars that boom with passion’s beatAnd the check out girl, counting changeAnd the hands that shook my

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Adam Hochschild, the author of the best-seller "King Leopold's War", has just released his latest book, "To End All Wars". I just finished reading it and it was excellent. Even though it focuses on people and events of nearly 100 years ago, so much of it is relevant to our times today. Hochschild has a knack for bringing out the fascinating stories of individuals who were caught up in massive

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A very thought-provoking post over at whatgoddoes.com"Does God exist in an eternal state of cognitive dissonance, desiring everyone be rescued from sin and death but having His hands tied by His own protocol?"

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"Being a Christian is more about relationship with God than beliefs about God; more about the presence of God than the proofs of God; more about intimacy with truth than the tenets of truth; more about knowing God's activities than knowing God's attributes. It is time to move from a religion that seeks to comprehend God to a relationship that seeks to encounter and be a home for God--to move

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“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” -- Max Planck, Nobel Prize winning Physicist

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From The ProgressiveUntold Truths About the American RevolutionBy Howard Zinn, July 2009 IssueThere are things that happen in the world that are bad, and you want to do something about them. You have a just cause. But our culture is so war prone that we immediately jump from, “This is a good cause” to “This deserves a war.”You need to be very, very comfortable in making that jump.The American

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"...in order to form a more perfect union..."

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Thailand has just elected their first female Prime Minister. Meanwhile, about half of all Christian denominations still won't allow women to be pastors.

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“The Kingdom of Heaven did gather us and catch us all, as in a net, and God’s heavenly power at one time drew many hundreds. We came to know a place to stand in and what to wait in; and the Lord appeared daily to us….And our hearts were knit unto the Lord and one another in true and fervent love, in the covenant of Life with God; and that was a strong obligation or bond upon all our spirits,

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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” -- William Penn

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"But there is a wholly different way of being sure that God is real. It is not an intellectual proof, a reasoned sequence of thoughts. It is the fact that men experience the presence of God." - Thomas R. Kelly

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"My favorite phrase for spiritual leaders is based on the word astronaut. Naut means "sailor" and astro means "stars." An astronaut is a "sailor of the stars"; a cosmonaut is a "sailor of the cosmos." Spiritual leaders are "pneumanauts"--sailors of the Spirit--based on the Greek word for "spirit" (pneuma). The Scriptures say that there is one thing predictable about those who are born of the

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Yesterday Carla and I went over to the Half Price Bookstore in the Capital Hill area of Seattle. While there, we noticed some type of street fair a couple of blocks away, on Broadway, and decided to walk over and take a look. We found ourselves in the midst of the Capital Hill Gay Pride Festival. As we walked through the streets blocked off for the Festival, we saw extremities of behavior that

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This is a very timely and very troubling documentary about the current use of robotic warfare; its future and its moral implications.

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Uh oh. This can only lead to..........more married people.

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In early May a group of us went to hear Feisal Abdul Rauf--the Imam of the "Ground Zero Mosque"--speak at St. Mark's Episcopal church in Seattle as part of a conference called "Confronting Islamophobia." The video of his speech that night is now online. This is a godly man and a peacemaker.

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I was laying in bed last night thinking... Humans have been around for a couple of hundred thousand years (they've been here in North America for roughly 40,000 years). In that time, it is estimated that 96,000,000,000 people have come and gone. Nearly all of them simply sought food, shelter, safety, community and peace with their god(s). To obtain these basic things, on any given day, was

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I had two fathers.The first was the father of my childhood and teenage years. He was a faithful and good provider for his family. He was generous to his kids. He took us on road trips to Disneyland and the Grand Canyon. He could make us laugh so hard it would hurt. He was somewhat driven and impatient. He could be competitive and pugnacious and brutal in his honesty. He accomplished many

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Here's my attempt to describe in song what occurs during a Quaker Meeting for Worship.

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This is an essay by Dr. Michael Bird (PhD, University of Queensland). Dr. Bird is Lecturer in Theology at Crossway College in Queensland, Australia. His research interests include the Gospel of Mark, Pauline theology, New Testament theology, and evangelical ecclesiology. The essay was posted on the website of Christians for Biblical Equality. "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the

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There is a fantastic piece over on WhatGodDoes.com about the theological similarities between Westboro Baptist Church and Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle: http://www.whatgoddoes.com/?p=149

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"Jesus said 'Blessed are the meek'Jesus said 'Turn the other cheek'Jesus said help the poor and the weakIf He lived today he'd be a radical freak"

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My mother is perhaps the most energetic person I've ever known. Even now, in her late-70's, she walks two miles a day, does water aerobics, travels (she is at a cottage in France as I write this), maintains her house and bakes large quantities of British delicacies (sausage rolls, cornish pasties, scotch eggs, etc.) for various organizations and causes.When my father used to call her from work,

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The Whole Sweep Of Scripture from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.

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"God gives to every human being who comes into the world a measure of the divine spirit as a Living Witness and a Light to be inwardly guided by. Those who learn to heed the promptings of this Light within them come to be "saved" - that is, they come into fullness and wholeness of life and right relationship with God, themselves, and one another.Those who resist, ignore, or otherwise deny the

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In September of 2003 I began this blog by posting a "manifesto" (for lack of a better word) entitled "Exploring Ekklesia" ("ekklesia" being the Greek word meaning "a gathering of the called-out ones" and typically translated in the New Testament as "church"). At the time, I had just left a leadership position at a Vineyard church. The post was, in part, a reaction against perceived shortcomings

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"In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of

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God really spoke to me through the story of Maggie Doyne. Or rather, God reminded and reconfirmed to me something He has been speaking to me a lot about recently. If you're not familiar with Maggie Doyne, please read her story here or watch this video. You will be inspired by this remarkable young woman.Ok, did you read/watch her story? It seems to me that her amazing journey can be summed up

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According to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the civilian to soldier death ratio in wars fought since the mid-20th century has been 10:1, meaning ten civilian deaths for every soldier death.Where is their memorial?

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"The economy of war requires of every soldier an implicit submission to his superior; and this submission is required of every gradation of rank to that above it. This system may be necessary to hostile operations, but I think it is unquestionably adverse to intellectual and moral excellence.The very nature of unconditional obedience implies the relinquishment of the use of the reasoning powers.

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This is an excerpt from a larger article about Harold Camping written in 2002 by James R. White of the Christian Research Institute (http://www.equip.org/articles/harold-camping). Every Christian ought to read it, whether you know or care about Harold Camping or not. There has been a lot of criticism--and rightfully so--of Harold Camping's attempt to predict "the day and the hour." But what

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