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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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Tagged With: BlackLivesMatter, Transfiguration, Pandemic, COVID-19, Race, Bible
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Eating the Book

January 1, 2012

Read through the Bible in 2012 with a community of local fellow-readers: Door Creek and Blackhawk churches here in Madison are encouraging their communities to join in a reading plan called Eat This Book.

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Shelved with: Word in Season|| Reading the Word
Tagged With: Book Clubs, Bible
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On the Discipline of Seeing

November 12, 2011

Pastor David E. Carlson at Fresh Read tells what painting has taught him about studying the Word.

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Shelved with: Text & Context|| Reading the Word|| Visions & Ventures
Tagged With: Bible, watercolor, close reading, arts
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Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly

April 1, 2011

What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?

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Shelved with: Word in the World|| Reading the Word|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: film, Shakespeare, Liturgy, Holidays, History, Civility, Bible, April Fool
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Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

August 31, 2008

Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with which we interact of a regular basis, and that social and informational context is part of what shapes who we are in the world. Blog Day is a chance to expand those social and informational horizons by forging new links into new networks, bridging the divides between people and communities and enlarging our own experience.

The basic rules for Blog Day ask bloggers to post about five blogs that they would like to share with the world. I’ve decided to do a little more…

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Tagged With: WordPress, social media, Shanta Rohse, Rick Warren, Richard Harwood, Open-Books, DiGeorge Syndrome, Milton Gaither, Memes, media ethics, Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Justin Tadlock, Jon Boyd, Ian Stewart, Digital Literacy, Community of Practice, Byron Borger, Bookstores, Bob Dylan, Blogging, Bible, Barack Obama, 22q11 Deletion Syndrome
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The Good Book at the Olympic Games

August 14, 2008

Because cultural and academic leaders in China are seeking to understand the influence of the Bible on the worldview and culture of the West, there is a growing interest in Chinese-English bilingual Bibles in mainland China…”What a wonderful thing it would be if thousands of people would learn English?and Chinese!?by reading the Bible in side-by-side bilingual editions.?

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Tagged With: Body, Translation, Sports, Social Justice, Religion, Olympic Games, Language, Culture, China, Byron Borger, Bible
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Reading the Foundations of Religious Freedom

December 28, 2007

Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes […]

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Tagged With: Religion, History, Bible
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