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On Saturday night at CCDA I was excited to hear from Soong-Chan Rah, a Korean-American professor at North Park University in Chicago (stinkin everybody at CCDA was from Chicago!) and he did not disappoint.
Soong’s main topic was the changing face of global Christianity. No longer a majority Western religion, Christianity is growing fastest in [...]

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The Oil ferry visited Memphis, thanks Oil ferry.

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OK, I need to start getting some reflections on CCDA out there before they go cold.
This was the title of a workshop I attended.  The main theme of the conference was Shalom: Seeking the Peace of the city.  This workshop sought to explore the relationship between justice and shalom.
The main component of the presentation was [...]

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In being here at CCDA I have had a personal insight, not really directly related to any of the topics that have been addressed, but emerging in the midst of the presentations and workshops.  The insight is this, I listen to different people for different reasons now than I did 5 years ago.
5 years ago [...]

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We’re about 1/2 way through CCDA on Friday morning.  I feel like I have gleaned some great nuggetts of thoughts and ideas through the main sessions and workshops.
Wayne Gordon spoke in the morning yesterday.  Quipped that
charisma w/o character is catastrophic and
success w/o spiritual depth is superficial.
He also held up those in the conference who were [...]

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Just real quick cause I don’t have much time.
The conference so far has been great - unlike any I have ever been to before.  Everyone has great stories of major stuff they are a part of and what they see God doing.  There are an insane number of great workshops - tough to choose from.
This [...]

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Leaving this afternoon for Miami along with some other friends for the CCDA conference.  I have been looking forward to this conference for quite some time and plan on blogging and twittering some of my thoughts and experiences through the week as I am able.
There is a Facebook group if you are intereted in joining.
Tomorrow [...]

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I was able to get away this past week to connect with some friends and family, first in the Outer banks of NC and then in Chicago.

Babs (Adam) and Carrie were celebrating their 4 year anniversary and invited some friends along.  So, I joined them and my friends Sean and Julie - and their 6-month [...]

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“The best critique of the bad is the practice of the better.”
– Richard Rohr

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I had the good fortune of receiving an advance copy of Scot McKnight’s newest book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible from Zondervan who asked me to post a review, which I am happy to do.
Scot begins with the following assumption:
Everyone of us adopts the Bible and (at the same time) [...]

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