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    Becoming Co-Workers With The Truth

    When George Fox was initially on his spiritual quest to understand the true nature of faith and Christianity, he was living in

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    The Original Nursery of Truth – Part 1

    This is the first of a three-part post on whether or not Quakers can be “Publishers of Truth” today. In this series I want to talk about how I think early Quakers understood

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    Catholic Women as Priests

    Yesterday, the New York Times posted a slideshow from Judith Levitt of Catholic women who are priests. This might come as a surprise to some of you, but there is a growing resistance movement

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    On Parables: Give It To Me Slant

    One of my favorite things about Jesus are his parables. Those of us who have grown up in, or at least around the church, know them well. The Good Shepherd, the Good Samaritan, the

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    ‘even the thorn-bush by the wayside is aflame with the glory of God’ (Prayer)

    Here is a prayer out of the Walter Rauschenbusch book of prayers “For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening.” I believe at least the middle paragraph can be attributed to St.

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    Which Direction Are We Headed?

    I love traveling, I always have. One thing I have learned is that the type of journey and its destination determine what you’ll pack in your bags. If I am going on a

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    Fall and Winter in the Life of the Spirit

    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” – Jesus (John 10:10 NRSV)I love Fall. It is a beautiful transition

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    Seeing Beyond What We See

    At Camas Friends we are thinking about advent season and how it is connected to our sense of sight this year. Here’s something short I’ve written about it: This advent season we

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    If You Can’t Go Over It, then…

    One of L’s favorite books, and if we’re being completely honest mine as well, is “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt.” It’s a great adventure story that begs to be

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    Joan Baez – Virgin Mary (Had One Son)

    Re-Watching some of the “No Direction Home” documentary this evening on Bob Dylan and was reminded of this haunting video by

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    All We Grow (Jeremiah 2:4-13)

    This is the message I gave on Sunday. Opening_ What are we growing? There’s a new album that recently came out titled “All We Grow,” by S. Carey. While I actually really like

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    The Testimony of Witness

    This is my sermon from Sunday. If you’d like a little background to this, you can check out yesterday’s post “In Search of a New Frame for Evangelism and Mission.” This is

  13. Church in Mission 7 min read

    In Search of a New Framework for Evangelism and Mission

    One of the things I have become fascinated with over the course of the last decade falls  broadly under the umbrella known as missiology, or the study of Christian missions. I like many of

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    Those It Is Acceptable to Hate

    This summer some of us from our church meet every other week to discuss a query dealing with some issue related to things happening around the world. A few weeks back we talked about

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    There is No Pure Christianity

    A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all

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