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

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Ok, I don’t know exactly who this author is, but they are my new best friend!
I came across this excellent post a while back, and now this one from which I offer just a few poignant lines.
The reason the church must be sectarian is not because the world is too big, too dirty, or too [...]

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A few weeks ago I came across a quote by John Howard Yoder…
The people who bear crosses are working with the grain of the universe.
Instantly I had all sorts of thought flow through my mind. But, instead of posting myself, I though about asking a couple friends, a guy and a gal to jot [...]

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This past Sunday I had my first opportunity to address the Living Hope community. I must have had a thousand different thoughts on what to share. Ultimately, I really wanted to share some of my story and highlight something that I found relevant for where we’re at as a community of [...]

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Hahah… NT Wright is in my opinion the most amazing New Testament scholar out there. Today, while reading his most recent book, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, I came across this little ditty…
Communication theorists insist that for full human communication you need not only words [...]

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I love questions - they have the potential to open up new worlds of possibilities every time they are asked.  Even more, I love supplanting the questions we almost mindlessly often ask with fresh, thought provoking ones.
I was reading today and came across this quote…
Instead of asking young people, ‘What are you going to do when you [...]

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Saw this quote on my iGoogle page today and laughed out loud (then wondered why I wasn’t crying instead).

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I don’t think I know anyone, student, faculty, or staff person, who more personally embodies the ethos of Fuller Theological Seminary than its president, Richard Mouw. Much like Fuller, and to the great frustration of conservatives and liberals alike, he’s happy to call himself an evangelical, but really can’t be placed on the conservative/liberal [...]

 

 Rich Mouw 2007 Fuller Commencement Address: Play Now | Play in Popup

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A new friend shared this quote with me the other day from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work, Life Together.
He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

As I was thinking about this, I [...]

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