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Ash Wednesday Prayer Service

February 18, 2010 Lent 4 min read

Today has been great. We had a really great meeting with the Camas-Washougal Homelessness Task Force this afternoon. A visitor from New Life Friends Church came and talked to us about a variety of ministries they are doing and some of the nuts and bolts of how to go about

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Connecting with M

February 16, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 1 min read

This past Sunday was a great day. It was a lot of fun having Eliacin Rosario-Cruz and family and Mark van Steenwyk visit our meeting (not to mention go to their discussion on liberated spaces in Portland the evening before). We had a nice time going out to lunch at

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Transfiguration, Zombies and Being Fully Awake (Luke 9:28-36)

February 16, 2010 Featured 9 min read

Last week we talked about making peace with the earth and part of what is needed in order to do that is to have a conversion where we go through the process of blindness to gaining “eyes to see.” That we need eyes to see the beauty in the world

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Working in Established Congregations

February 12, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

I had a conversation yesterday that reminded me of something I hadn’t written about. Going through grad school I was pretty sure that I would end up planting a church or just teaching Quaker theology or a little of both. The thought of working in an established congregation wasn’

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My Very Own False Advisers

February 11, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

Ryan, my doctoral adviser, sent this to me this morning, and I confess I had a good chuckle over the fact that all three of my PhD committee members are considered false teachers: “It’s  common to see the promotion of false teachers from the Emerging Church  Movement such as

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Life is a Miracle: Making Peace with All Things (Col. 1:15-23)

February 10, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 9 min read

This is my sermon from this past Sunday on making peace with the earth. First A Confession: This is not a topic I have not always cared about. I am no scientist. I am a total hack when it comes to gardening at this point. I still have quite a

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(Not A) Golden Mouth

February 9, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 3 min read

I’m hoping some day preaching becomes the kind fluid movement for me that other people in their professions seem to acquire with their skills of necessity. You know, where the person is so keyed in that it doesn’t even look like they’re doing what they are doing?

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Lifestyle

February 6, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

I’ve been thinking about my lifestyle a lot lately. One reason for this is that I’ve recently had trouble with my back and neck and have suffered from some pretty intense tension headaches. I started going to the chiropractor about a month ago and that has helped some

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Can Quakers Plan?

February 4, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

I never used to be big on planning ahead. In undergrad I was the guy working on papers through the night and then jogging to class with a wet ink on a newly printed research paper. My grades showed for it. Then I got married and went to grad school.

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On Earth As it is in Heaven

February 3, 2010 Green 2 min read

This is the last week for peace month at Camas Friends even though January officially ended a couple days ago. I thought why not extend it just a little longer so we can focus on making peace with the earth? To get things started off properly I decided to take

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Feeding Sheep With Steady Diets of This and That

February 3, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

I’ve missed a few days of posting for my series (I try to post on the days I work) but I’m back on it.  I last wrote about my full weekend, and was it ever full?! Here are a few highlights. I was approved to be on the

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A Full Weekend Ahead

January 30, 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 1 min read

I had the best intentions of writing a post about yesterday,  but I was just too exhausted and went to bed after watching my favorite “fake news” shows. This morning I’m headed out to our Mid-Year Boards for the Yearly Meeting where I have been put on our leadership

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