I got an email this weekend … “It is with great sadness that we announce that Robert Webber passed away Friday April 26. We will be posting details on www.seminary.edu and on the AEF Call web site www.aefcall.org about the upcoming public memorial service in the Chicago area as soon as details are finalized. Please keep the Webber…
Category: Meditation
Things Break
“In the brokenness, defeat and sorrow Is where lie all the deep lessons of my life.”This side of the resurrection Nothing wants to be broken, And yet everything must be broken. To never break is to lie stagnant and eventually die.Things break. I break now and again. Picking up the pieces can be an act…
Twelve Steps For Doctoral Students
Many thanks to The Blogging Parson for the following steps … I’m not a doctoral student but it’s still good advice to kick me forward for my part-time studies. “1. Few books, but good. Learn to be a good re-reader rather than try to read absolutely everything. Who cares if you can read 1000s of…
The “10 essentials” to deal with stress
I should put this up since I missed “Stress Awareness Day” on April 16. I didn’t even know there was one. Here’s some helpful tips from Stressed out? 1. Breath deeply 2. Drink water 3. Sleep peacefully 4. Eat nutritiously 5. Enjoy activity 6. Give and receive love 7. Be forgiving 8. Practice gratitude 9….
Community or Communitas?
Here’s some precious insights on “community” highlighted by Pastor Rod that connects with a lot of what is on my mind the past weeks. There is a lot of talk in the church about community. But there seems to be too little experience of true community. Anthropologist Victor Turner suggests that we should think about…
Coming to Terms with Life
“I have come to terms with life – nothing can happen to me, and my personal fate is not the issue…. By ‘coming to terms with life’ I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by looking death in…
Is Christianity true? or …
“The question that one must ask is not, ‘is Christianity true’ (at least not yet), but rather ‘what is it that Christianity claims when it claims to be true’.” – Pete Rollins Pete’s insight above and the whole post stuck with me the whole day and re-emerges tonight before I sleep. No, I will sleep…
Openness and Ownership
“Don’t confuse openness with ownership. Owning a vision comes through labor intensive repetition. There is no other way. Many are open – only the repeatedly exposed fan come to own it. “ – Max DuPree (HT: Ron Martoia) I’m learning this all over again … a full cycle … what I need to strengthen is…
Not a Chance Event
“The cross of Christ was not an inexplicable or chance event, which happened to strike him, like illness or accident. To accept the cross as his destiny, to move toward it and even to provoke it, when he could well have done otherwise, was Jesus’ constantly reiterated free choice; and he warns his disciples lest…
Holy Saturday
Thanks Maggi Dawn for the following … Some how I needed to hear this. “Today is the day after; the day we remember the dark, unfathomable depth of despair the disciples must have faced at the unbelievable loss of not only their friend and mentor, but the person who embodied all their hopes of spiritual…