This is the final part of the discussion on the “Our Father.” This has not been an attempt to present any kind of comprehensive understanding,…
Leave a CommentThe Church is different. Spiritual Formation is Why
This is the final part of the discussion on the “Our Father.” This has not been an attempt to present any kind of comprehensive understanding,…
Leave a CommentAnd forgive us our debts “Abba, forgive us the debt of sin. We cannot repay this…ever.” Most of us will stop at this point. We…
Leave a CommentIn my previous post I started to look at the prayer Jesus taught his disciples as recorded in Matthew. I mentioned that the prayer has…
Leave a CommentThe prayer that Jesus taught his disciples has been recited and reflected on as long as there has been a church to do it. It…
Leave a CommentI’ve written a couple of posts about the Keystone pipeline and Canadian oil sands exploration. In these I have decidedly come down against moving forward…
Leave a CommentWhile in seminary I had the pleasure of being introduced to spiritual formation through spiritual disciplines. I had read Richard Foster’s The Celebration of Discipline…
Leave a CommentA few days ago I wrote a bit about humans being the image, or eikon, of God. As I continued to reflect on this I…
Leave a CommentOver this past weekend, between taxes and chores, I read Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games.” With all of the recent hype over the movie, I…
Leave a CommentI read this today over at Huffington Post. It seems that this person is zeroed in on some of the issues that we are wrestling…
Leave a CommentBack in 1986 Peter Gabriel released the song, Big Time. Part of the lyric reads, “And I will pray to a big god, as I…
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