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June 15, 2006

Suffering, Humility & Integrity

â€œGodâ€™s workâ€¦ is accomplished most incisively through sufferingâ€ (Athanasiadis, George Grant and the Theology of...

June 14, 2006

The Middle Path & the Mind of Christ

Read this quote, then what I have to say about it: The Christian â€œknows that...

June 13, 2006

Religion and Freedom

I love this passage from Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas: â€œâ€¦ the children of...

June 12, 2006

Religion and Rigor

"... people who are open spiritually are open to being manipulated more easily, are very...

June 11, 2006

kicking the darkness

I preached today. I donâ€™t knowâ€¦ thereâ€™s often a lingering sense that I was far...

June 10, 2006

Bono, Sheep, and Leadership

â€œâ€¦ I do love the image of sheep. Youâ€™ve got to hand it to Jesus....

June 09, 2006

Elie Wiesel and Faith

Hereâ€™s a shocking quote from Elie Wieselâ€™s book, Night, that MUST be heard: â€œIn the...

June 08, 2006

Friedman, Jung, the Borg.

â€œEverywhere you turn, hierarchies are being challenged from below or transforming themselves from top-down structures...

June 07, 2006

Leadership & Mountain Climbing

Isaiah, the Old Testament prophet, reports a promise of God: â€œI will lead the blind...

June 06, 2006

The Limited Mind

Unless we radically change the way we do, or are the church, we are in...

June 05, 2006

Full Presence Full Promise

Our church feels like it is on to something important. For years, we have lingered...

June 03, 2006

a weekend prayer

I like this prayer: â€œDear God, I have no idea where Iâ€™m going. I do...

June 01, 2006

The Baal Shem Tov, an Inspiration

Thereâ€™s something about the Baal Shem Tov (1698- 1760), a Jewish mystic and rabbi who...

May 2006

May 31, 2006

Babette’s Feast, Unconditional Love & Generosity

I watched the tail end of one of my favorite movies last night: Babetteâ€™s Feast....

May 30, 2006

Kafka’s Ax and Art

Jeanne Murray Walker in her essay, â€œBreaking the Illusions: What Playwrights Owe to Actors,â€ in...

May 29, 2006

God is Here Now.

â€œThis is eternal life, that they may know youâ€ (John 17:3). This verse got me...

May 26, 2006

Love and Church Membership

Listen to this passage from N. T. Wrightâ€™s, What Saint Paul Really Said: â€œA brief...

May 25, 2006

Suffering and Escape

The August 10th entry in Oswald Chamberâ€™s My Utmost For His Highest is a commentary...

May 24, 2006

Faith Ain’t Always Sweet

I read Oswald Chamberâ€™s My Utmost For His Highest this morning, as I do most...

May 23, 2006

Leadership and Wealth

In Elie Wieselâ€™s book, Night, he relates a story of a man called Moishe. They...

May 22, 2006

Nouwen, Wounded Prophet, the Church

Iâ€™ve been thinking a bit about ministry and what it means to be a pastor....

May 19, 2006

Disillusionment

â€œInnumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it has sprung from a...

May 18, 2006

The Difficulty

"... the cry of the sceptic and the defeated is revealed in Jesus' own agony...

May 17, 2006

O heart, please beat again!

On Monday night I watched the season finale to â€œGreyâ€™s Anatomyâ€. Iâ€™ve NEVER watched the...

May 16, 2006

Reshaped

I'm reading Miroslav Volf's FREE OF CHARGE: GIVING AND FORGIVING IN A CULTURE STRIPPED OF...

May 11, 2006

Welcome to David Hayward’s new website!

Welcome everyone! I'm hoping you will like my new website that includes my paintings, my...

May 11, 2006

Mountains Beyond Mountains and the “Long Defeat”

I've just finished an awesome book I highly recommend called Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy...

March 2006

March 27, 2006

Solitary Soul

This painting depicts the solitary feeling of existence, and sometimes how we feel isolated and...

March 27, 2006

Blind Faith

I love this passage in the Trappist monk, Thomas Merton's, "Seeds of Contemplation": And so,...

March 24, 2006

The Narrow Way

This is a mixed-media piece I did a few years ago.