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January 2009

January 31, 2009

Guilty As Accused

Last night I was told about someone... he and his whole family... life-long members of...

January 30, 2009

Laws, Logs and Love

Jesus, in the face of a centralized hostility towards outsiders, foreigners and the unclean, spoke...

January 30, 2009

cartoon: the horror!

I made a comment on one of my own previous blog posts that perhaps the...

January 29, 2009

Belonging

They assure me I'm among friends. They say they love me like their God does....

January 28, 2009

cartoon: exclusivisticalism

I think most of our thinking, attitudes, policies and behavior is exclusivist, when I think...

January 27, 2009

Gays Go!

Last night I had a very disturbing dream. In my dream there are many lesbians...

January 20, 2009

A Parable of Me and My Community

This parable, roughly written yesterday and today, captures the story of my life and my...

January 19, 2009

Mortgage Burning Highlights

We burned our mortgage at the church Saturday night. It was quite a celebration. Several...

January 18, 2009

prayer from the cell: send/receive

January 17, 2009

Mortgage Burning

Last night I had a dream: I'm preaching in a large older church. I'm telling...

January 13, 2009

Inscrutable

I'm finding these days a struggle. We are going through quite a difficult time. I...

October 2008

October 31, 2008

cartoon: remote control

February 2008

February 19, 2008

nakedpastor for sale? (the site, not the man)

Right now I'm feeling like I have nothing valuable to say. I need, once again,...

February 15, 2008

What Holds Us Together

I've been thinking about what holds us together as a community. This has been on...

February 13, 2008

Silence and Crucibles of Change

I'm feeling kind of quiet these days... again! I'm lying low. Or trying to. In...

February 08, 2008

I Found a Home

I received a call yesterday from someone who wanted to interview me regarding emerging forms...

February 05, 2008

Love Without Fear

It is important to create an atmosphere of honesty, confession and repentance for a community...

February 04, 2008

Loving What Is

I cannot change the world and I have no intentions of doing so. I can't...

January 2008

January 29, 2008

Can You?

Can you speak your mind... Can you openly confess your sin... Can you share your...

January 09, 2008

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

I'm feeling really tired today. Part of it is having teens. But you can tell,...

January 08, 2008

Fight or Flight

I have two fairly prominent inclinations. One is that I want to engage life and...

January 02, 2008

To Blog or Not to Blog… That is the Question.

Sorry I haven't been blogging much. The holidays, for one thing, kept me busy. Our...

December 2007

December 17, 2007

We All Like Cats Have Gone Astray!

I seriously question the whole religious enterprise. If you've read my blog at all you...

December 12, 2007

Let All Voices Have a Voice!

Forgive me if I don't make much sense today, but I'm struggling with some sort...

December 06, 2007

Nakedpastor Strips Some More!

I had joined adsense I think last spring. That is what explained all the ads...

December 05, 2007

Kill Creativity!

I came across this video of Ken Robinson giving a short presentation at the TEDTalks....

December 04, 2007

Critiquing the Bride

Over the last year I have received emails from different people suggesting that my critical...

November 2007

November 29, 2007

Community, Friends and Loneliness

I'm thankful for my community that I'm a part of. It is sometimes exciting, sometimes...

November 28, 2007

Lip Service or Heart Surgery?

So yesterday I made some suggestions that the community shouldn't assume when it has pleased...

November 27, 2007

Assumptions Can Be Fatal!

I appreciate everyone's comments on yesterday's post about the Coffee House raising money for Darfur....