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June 2015

June 10, 2015

Deeper into Your Love and Compassion – A Slow Church Benediction.

Lord God, Giver of all gifts, who loves and abundantly sustains the whole of your...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Three Ways We Can Foster Gratitude in Our Churches

Note: The last three days we've been focusing on gratitude as a communal discipline. On...

November 28, 2014

Cultivating Gratitude in Our Communities

Note: In Slow Church, Chris and I describe gratitude as the vital bridge that connects abundance and...

November 27, 2014

Gratitude and Justice

Note: Researchers have found that the happiest people also tend to be the most grateful. What's interesting...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Remembering Mr. Rogers.

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers (aka, PBS's Mr. Rogers)....

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Scarcity: What do you think?

Are there enough resources to sustain creation as a whole? And regardless, how do we...

June 2013

June 16, 2013

Eyes of the Heart: A Photographic Journey Toward Receptivity

Eyes of the Heart is a profoundly helpful resource in helping us to recover the...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

Many thanks to our friends who voted for Englewood’s Garden Project…

If you hadn't heard already, Englewood did win a $25,000 grant from State Farm...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

G.K. Chesterton on Santa Claus

I love G.K. Chesterton's take on Santa Claus. I wrote this blog post a couple...

December 18, 2012

Nurturing and Strengthening Gratitude [Living Into Community #3]

This is the third in an Advent series of eight posts that will wind their...

December 12, 2012

Waiting in Expectation for the Transformation of the World [Living Into Community #2]

This is the second in an Advent series of eight posts that will wind their...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

When Gratitude Gets Complicated [Gratitude Series – #2]

This week I am doing a daily series on gratitude, since this virtue plays a...