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Interventions: A Short-Circuit in Mission (Luke 4:14-30)
I was unable to post my talk from last Sunday here this week because I’ve been busy at YM but I did post it on the church’s blog and on twitter. If
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John Caputo on Cyberspace
Far from undermining religious sensibilities, the advanced communication technologies are actually trading in religious goods and thus provide a new space, a
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Camas Friends Church Blog
I’ve just set up a blog for the church I am pastoring, Camas Friends Church. I will be posting my sermons
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The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani (A Review)
I’m way late to be posting about this book, but I still operate under the “better really late, than even later
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Interventions: What Then Shall We Produce? (Luke 3:1-20)
Interventions: What Then Should We Do? John the Baptist and Luke 3:1-20 Peace Playhouse This past week was our peace playhouse, which from all the reports I heard, went well. Because of
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New Quaker Blogger Book: Writing Cheerfully on the Web
Liz Oppenheimer has recently edited a volume of online conversations from a rich variety of Quaker authors and brought them together in
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Learning Poetry Like Eugene Peterson
A favorite blogger of mine, Fernando Gros, linked to a post of Eugene Peterson quotes the other day that are well worth
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Luke 1:5-38 Interventions: Birthing the Impossible (Notes from Sunday July 12th)
This is what we reflected on together as a community this past The kingdom is for the Little Ones We have two parallel passages today, one with a story of two people “getting on
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Twitter Will Kill You Video
Found this today, and it’s pretty hilarious, especially considering that I use twitter frequently myself. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Adult Second Hour (Worship) Resource On Luke 1
A fellow reader of “gathering in light,” Paul, emailed and asked me if he could the sermon notes and queries from last
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Meeting New Challenges Through Repetition
In every generation the church faces new, as well as old, challenges. For many years, Christendom allowed a basic stability within the culture for the church to remain in tact. It was a false
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The (Real) Pursuit of Happiness
Came across this today and it reminded me that true happiness is not what we’re told it is: Happy are those
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Luke 1:1-4 Storyboards: Narration as Intervention (Sermon Notes)
This past Sunday we reflected on Luke 1:1-4, Luke’s introduction to his wonderful Gospel. Since many have undertaken to
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Quakerism and Sustainability: Camas Friends Practice A New “Plainness”
I’ve posted about this already on Twitter and Facebook so excuse the repetition, but it seems like it should be here
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Interventions in The Gospel of Luke
Tomorrow we begin a series we’re playfully naming, “Interventions in The Gospel of Luke.” Our reflections will not only draw on the text itself, what it says, what it teaches, but it suggests