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Divine Reading for the First Sunday of Advent: An old practice for the new year

December 1, 2022

This Advent our little nondenominational Bible church is taking time on Sunday mornings to sit quietly in the presence of the Word, patterning our time after a medieval practice that blends reading, contemplation, and prayer, called Lectio Divina.

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Shelved with: Word in Prayer|| Word in Worship|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Lectio Divina, Church Year, Advent, Holidays
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Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Word in the World|| Reading the Word|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Pandemic, BlackLivesMatter, Transfiguration, COVID-19, Race, Bible
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Aliens, right?

Truly Alien

May 27, 2017

I was in Lexington, KY, in May of 1977 with my 2 younger brothers when Grandpa Wetzel dropped us off at the theater to see what he said was “Winnie-the-Pooh.”

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Family, #StarWars40th, Winnie the Pooh, SF, Star Wars, Movies
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Revising the Story of the First Thanksgiving

November 26, 2015

how can we receive the gifts history offers and use them to practice moral reflection, rather than judgement? Here’s the story we read as part of our celebration of an American Thanksgiving with church family and strangers from other shores.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| History
Tagged With: History, Holidays, Thanksgiving
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Realists of a Larger Reality

November 19, 2014

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” – Ursala K. LeGuin

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Shelved with: Literature|| Visions & Ventures

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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Shelved with: Parenting|| Word in the World|| Reading the Word|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Valentine's Day, Virtue, Sex, Psychology, Parenting, Marriage, Holidays, Gender
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The First Thanksgiving: Eight Lessons for Learning from History

November 14, 2013

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The First Thanksgiving

Putting together a coherent story from evidence is hard work. No wonder we reach for story first and evidence after, unless the discipline of History can teach us better habits!

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Shelved with: History|| Community & Time
Tagged With: History, Evidence, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Holidays
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A Thanksgiving Book Club

November 10, 2013

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series The First Thanksgiving

An invitation to read with me through The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God & Learning from History .

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Shelved with: History|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Wheaton College, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Holidays, History
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Ozeki’s “Tale” Entangles Readers

October 24, 2013

First sixteen pages
Seventeen footnotes ask, “Is
She making this up?”

A Tale for the Time Being

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Tagged With: GoBigRead Japan
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Learning to Smell

August 3, 2013

“by practice alone…”

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Shelved with: The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Quotes, Medicine, Botany
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Wounded & Holy

April 27, 2013

Of course there is woundedness, but there is holiness as well. How the two come together — not which one wins, but how they join — constitutes the unique and profound meaning of one’s life: the emergence out of the maelstrom of the true self, transformed in Christ.

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Shelved with: Word in Prayer|| Reading the Word

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St. Patrick by Hamish Burgess

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

March 17, 2013

I bind unto myself the power /
Of the great love of the cherubim; /
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, /
The service of the seraphim, /
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, /
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, /
All good deeds done unto the Lord, /
And purity of virgin souls.

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Literature|| Word in Worship|| Visions & Ventures|| Reading the Word|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: celtic, prayer, St. Patrick, arts, Holidays
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