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November 2007

November 12, 2007

Suffering Is Not a Stepping-Stone

(ADDED NOTE: My image in this post is available on T-shirts, etc., HERE.) Several time...

November 08, 2007

Look Up!

So much is happening in my life right now that i really don't have time...

November 07, 2007

Free To Come & Free To Go

This painting depicts how I feel about now. Sometimes I feel like alone I stand....

November 02, 2007

A Fork in the Road

After the innocent little cartoon that I posted the other day here, I received a...

October 2007

October 17, 2007

Bad Stress and Good Stress

There is bad stress, but there is such a thing as good stress too. I...

October 12, 2007

Trains on a Track to Where?

We all like sheep have gone astray. There is no one who does good. No,...

October 11, 2007

Transformation Is the End, Not the Means

I was pleasantly surprised when I came across this link to nakedpastor on Critical Mass,...

October 04, 2007

Live Free or Join?

After this post from the other day, I got some responses that seemed to say,...

October 03, 2007

My Church Visit

I walk slowly into the church. I try to look confident. People look at me...

October 01, 2007

Free People Freely Assemble!

I went to a funeral yesterday. It was the mother of a woman in our...

September 2007

September 27, 2007

Sunsets & Ideological Caution

The night before last Lisa and I carried our cups of hot tea down to...

September 25, 2007

Silence. Thoughts. Words. Art.

I have started up my blog/ website devoted to my art and the arts in...

September 24, 2007

Turning 50 & Dying to All

This man is turning 50 on October 7. As his landmark birthday approaches, he finally...

September 21, 2007

Mother Teresa Me and You

I recently read the Times article on Mother Teresa's crisis of faith. I literally rejoiced...

September 12, 2007

Free To Be Loved, Free To Change

I just finished an excellent novel last night by the Canadian writer David Adams Richards,...

September 05, 2007

The God Who Pulls Me Down

I just met with my leadership team. I confessed to them that I've been having...

September 04, 2007

How Bloggers Eat Lunch

I had the pleasure of taking Bill Kinnon and his wife Imbi out for lunch...

August 2007

August 31, 2007

In But Not Of

I am inside the system. I am a part of the machine. I am one...

August 30, 2007

Listening Ears Hear

I wrote something yesterday in this post on Higher Learning or Life that I thought...

August 29, 2007

Higher Learning or Life

I began my PhD in New Testament Studies over 20 years ago. Through a series...

July 2007

July 31, 2007

The Offensive Pain of Grace

Grace is offensive. Back in this post from December of last year I quoted Merton:...

July 30, 2007

I Cry For Transformation!

Lisa and I took our much-needed weekend and went to a nearby city, Moncton. We...

July 10, 2007

Sarah, Cambodia and Change

This is my friend Sarah who is a part of our church community. You'll remember...

February 2007

February 13, 2007

The Meaninglessness of Modification

Stephen Oates, in his book on Martin Luther King, Jr., Let The Trumpet Sound, quotes...

February 06, 2007

Youth Diaspora

So last week, as a requested birthday present from our son Jesse who just turned...

January 2007

January 11, 2007

Analysis Paralysis

Krishnamurti said, Man has analysed himself for thousands of years, and produced no result but...

December 2006

December 29, 2006

die to self

Krishnamurti wrote: Can this mind negate everything it has known, the total content of its...