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In ‘63 Life Magazine ran a feature article on A. Philip Randolph and Rustin about the March on Washington (8/28/63) which they organized. King and others were worried about Rustin, who was gay, being in the spotlight because he was too much of a “vulnerability.” The “Big Six”
Continue reading →Know On Whose Shoulders We Stand
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One question I’m getting a lot is about what is my responsibility at Guilford College and what are the things I’d like to see happen. I waffle on both of these fronts. One is because at least some of my responsibilities are still unfolding and being discerned. Others
Continue reading →Obstacles and Opportunities in the Red Sea of Transition (Ex. 14)
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This is the message I brought to New Garden Friends Meeting on August 30th, 2015. I hope, in the time that we have together, to begin to open up a terrain for all of us in the face of three critical transitions that this NGFM is facing: * The pastoral transition
Continue reading →And today, I say farewell to my beloved church
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Here is a bit of what we did today as a farewell to our ministry at Camas Friends Church. “Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved… Rejoice [Farewell] in the Lord always;
Continue reading →Origin Stories and Midwives of the Spirit (John 3)
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This is my last prepared message given to Camas Friends Church (June 21, 2015). “Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the
Continue reading →Convergent Model of Renewal: A Sketchnote Companion and Discussion Guide (Complete)
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Last night we finished up a six-week discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book. You can purchase “A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture” through my publisher Wipf and Stock or on Amazon (it’s more expensive there): “A Convergent Model of Renewal.
Continue reading →Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chapter 3)
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We are doing a discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book, “A Convergent Model of Renewal.” This week is chapter three, which covers what we can learn from participatory culture. I am posting the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them
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“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer,
Continue reading →A Remixed Church: Adaptation, Legos and Renewal (Isaiah 43:18-19)
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“Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of
Continue reading →A Blended Family: On The Importance of Difference
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“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26) “Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled
Continue reading →Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chp. 2)
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We are doing a discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book, “A Convergent Model of Renewal.” I am posting the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them and use them. Feel free to share and dispense however that makes sense as
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