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Reblogging: Salvation Army Invented Missional
It’s only been a year since I posted this, but this had a profound affect on me, and I hope you enjoy reading it for the first time, or reading it again. I’m currently reading The General Next To God: The Story of William Booth and the Salvation Army by Richard Collier. Don’t go looking [...]
Take Action: Ask ESPN to Support Reporter Who Affirmed Marriage
An ESPN reporter who spoke out in support of God's design for marriage Monday is under attack from mainstream media critics and homosexual activists. CitizenLink is encouraging people to contact the sports network to voice support for...Show More Summary
In Christ - Prayer
Had the opportunity to close off our latest teaching series at Milton Keynes Christian Centre Church - In Christ. We have been going through the book of Colossians. This message was on Col 4:2: "Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving." In Christ - Prayer from MKCCpreaching on Vimeo. Can't see the video click here
Richie Havens and The Great Mandala
Richie Havens died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He was 72. I think for most people the first time they heard Richie Havens it was from listening to the Woodstock album or watching the opening sequence of Woodstock, the movie. Show More Summary
A Constant Thought
Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Ch’an school, said, The Dharma is to be found in this world and not in another. To leave this world to search for the dharma is as futile as searching for a rabbit with horns.” We can consider “Dharma”...Show More Summary
Trailer: Jesus and Buddha join up in “Saint Young Men”
The Phuket News tells us today about Saint Young Men, a Japanese manga tale which has now evolved into an animated film. As we’re told, the artist behind it “portrays Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, as two cool guys who share an apartment on their trip to Earth. The [...]
Wednesday Link List
Our opening graphic is from the blog Abandoned to God. Here’s this weeks links: Opening Link: A pastor and his wife in Watertown, MA are caught in the middle of a shootout in the wake of the Boston bombings. “We were trapped, with active gunfire on three sides of our home.” Here’s another new movie [...]
Video of the Humanist Memorial Service for the Victims of the Boston Bombings
Over the weekend, after atheists were excluded from the "interfaith" service for the victims of the Boston bombings, the Humanist Community at Harvard held a secular memorial service to pay their respects to the victims and the wounded. Show More Summary
Thrift Shop Theology
Poppin' tags with an unlikely spiritual teacher.
You can tell the brand of my daughter's jacket whether or not she's facing you, its white logo is stitched on the front and back. I'd resisted buying her this North Face fleece for months. Show More Summary
Christian Pastor: Some Women Are Like Chinese Water Torture
Last night, I watched a sermon given by a fundamentalist Christian pastor talking about complementarianism, where only men can be the leaders in the church and home. I know some of you are sick of hearing about that because I've just...Show More Summary
Mindful, Boundless, Impermanence...oh my.
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest…”
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Remembering Richie Havens
Richie Havens, the legendary folk singer and guitarist who opened Woodstock and continued as a respected musician throughout his life died yesterday of a heart attack at age 72. (The music-industry publication Billboard has an obituary for Havens, here.) Havens was a contemporary of Bob Dylan and others of the Greenwich Village folk scene who [...]
The Forgotten Gift of the Dove Real Beauty Video
You’ve probably seen the Dove Real Beauty Sketches Youtube video. Last week, it generated a lot of responses, from the informative to the satirical, both pro and con. Surprisingly, no one I read mentioned the feature of the video toward which I gravitated most strongly. While everyone else watched the women, I watched the strangers. [...]
Psalm 23: Fear Not In The Valley | Reflecting On Our Week
Psalm 23: Fear Not In The Valley | Reflecting On Our Week from The Rev. Chuck Currie on Vimeo. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
We Sure Could Use A Little Good News Today
” When sorrows come – they come not single spies – but in battalions “ ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act IV, Scene V Every night at 6:30 PM I watch the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. I became a convert about five years ago after decades of watching ABC World News Tonight starting in [...]
Jeff Bridges and the Stone Soup Café help stamp out hunger
As Andrea Miller tells in our May magazine, Jeff Bridges has been committed to ending hunger for almost as long as he’s been in movies, and this week, the Stone Soup Café in Greenfield, Massachusetts, announced that he has pledged $30,000 in matching donations to support the café’s work over the next three years. Stone [...]
Video: After Boston, Sakyong Mipham leads us through a compassion and loving-kindness meditation
In response to Monday’s bombings at the Boston marathon, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has recorded this video, offering messages of support for those affected by the explosions and guiding viewers through a compassion and loving-kindness meditation. Show More Summary
“The Bible’s” Fill of Meaningful Omission
"The Bible" squashed the central achievement of biblical storytelling: meaningful omissions and lacunae, “story” as the seed of excited, growing interpretations.
You Talk Like a Girl
How vocal fry affects women in the church. Even if you've never heard of "vocal fry" or "upspeak," you probably hear people speak in these patterns every day. Vocal fry is when someone's voice gets lower and turns gravely, usually drawn out at the end of a sentence. Show More Summary
Wednesday Link List
Lots of good stuff this week. Take the time! The Seventh Day Adventist Church is celebrating a 150-year anniversary, though as a group that believed in very immanent return of Jesus, the anniversary is a bit of an embarrassment. Clay Gentry goes really deep on those “phantom” scripture verses, including some principles many people think [...]
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