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2012-05-06T17:50:47-05:00

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There Are No Unsacred Places

Last updated on: May 6, 2012 at 5:50 pm By John Pattison

My pastor, Bob Henry, read this wonderful blog post this morning at Silverton Friends Church. The post is called “The Hill” and it was written by Mike Huber, pastor of West Hills Friends, a Quaker meeting in Portland. The blog post reminds me of something Wendell Berry wrote in a poem called “How To Be a Poet (to remind myself)”: There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. The apostle Paul says followers of Jesus... Read more

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2012-05-01T14:20:42-05:00

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Slow Formation [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Ted Lewis]

Last updated on: May 1, 2012 at 2:20 pm By Christopher Smith

[ On July 5-7, The Ekklesia Project will hold its annual gathering in Chicago, which will be on the theme of Slow Church. Between now and July, we will be running a series of lguest reflections here by folks connected with the E.P. We’ve asked guest posters to reflect on the meaning of Slow Church from their own local contexts. More info on the E.P. gathering. ] Today’s reflection, the fifth in the series, is by Ted Lewis. Read the... Read more

2012-04-30T14:38:29-05:00

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Technology, Community and Discernment.

Last updated on: April 30, 2012 at 2:38 pm By Christopher Smith

John’s post on Saturday on the Moral Importance of the iPhone reminded me of one of my favorite courses in college, an honors seminar on technology and community. This class was my first deep immersion into the works of Wendell Berry, and it was also where I first encountered the work of the Amish writer David Kline. A major thrust of the course was reflecting on the ways in which our choices about technology impact the shape of our communities... Read more

2012-04-29T20:04:54-05:00

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The Taste of the Place

Last updated on: April 29, 2012 at 8:04 pm By John Pattison

One of the keys to understanding Slow Church is captured in the seventeenth-century French phrase le goût de terroir, which can be translated “the taste of the place.” Carlo Petrini, co-founder of the Slow Food movement, writes often about terroir as “the combination of natural factors (soil, water, slope, height above sea level, vegetation, microclimate) and human ones (tradition and practice and cultivation) that gives a unique character to each small agricultural locality and the food grown, raised, made, and... Read more

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2012-04-28T23:06:06-05:00

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The Moral Importance of the iPhone

Last updated on: April 28, 2012 at 11:06 pm By John Pattison

In a 2007 interview with Arthur Boers, the philosopher Albert Borgmann makes the case that television is of moral importance. Borgmann says: “When I teach my ethics course I tell these relatively young people that the most important decision that they’ll make about their household is first whether they’re going to get a television and then second where they’re going to put it.” I think for my generation and for the generation coming after mine, the questions could probably be... Read more

2012-04-26T20:40:06-05:00

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Brief Remarks at a Tree Dedication

Last updated on: April 26, 2012 at 8:40 pm By John Pattison

The arts and craft college where I work sits on an 11-acre wooded campus in Portland’s west hills. It’s a beautiful campus, built on the site of an old filbert orchard, and it bewitches almost everyone who visits. A few years ago, the college put in two new beautiful, architecturally-significant buildings. Both buildings have been submitted for Silver LEED Certification. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of the old filbert orchard was destroyed during construction. (This was not part of the master... Read more

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2012-04-26T12:48:43-05:00

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We Have Nowhere Else to Go, and Nothing Else to Do.

Last updated on: April 26, 2012 at 12:48 pm By Christopher Smith

Yesterday, we took our homeschool co-op to the Indiana Repertory Theatre to see William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, the renowned story of Helen Keller’s childhood. This field trip was a special event since Rachel, one of our homeschoolers, had a small role in the play. It was an amazing performance, and especially 12-year old Ciarra Krohne who played the role of Helen (pictured). But this is not a review of the play; there was one line that stuck in my... Read more

2012-04-25T13:46:31-05:00

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Slowly Seeking the Shalom of God.

Last updated on: April 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm By Christopher Smith

Yesterday, John raised the question: what are the standards by which we make decisions and judge the health of a church community in a peak oil world? This question has been a pressing one for us at Englewood Christian Church, one that has regularly been the focus of our Sunday night conversation (the story of which I told in the recent ebook The Virtue of Dialogue). As I suggested in the comments to John’s post, our experience has been that... Read more

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2012-04-24T09:39:51-05:00

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Peak Oil and the Local Church

Last updated on: April 24, 2012 at 9:39 am By John Pattison

At last weekend’s Inhabit Conference in Seattle, I had the opportunity to co-facilitate (with Brandon Rhodes) a conversation on “peak oil and place.” It was a lively and fascinating discussion. Near the end I asked a question that I also want to pose here. Cheap fossil fuel energy has underwritten modernity and more than a century of America’s rapid economic growth. But the world’s oil resources are going into irreversible decline, and gas prices are through the roof. For this... Read more

2012-04-18T07:21:02-05:00

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Opening our Eyes [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Susan Adams]

Last updated on: April 18, 2012 at 7:21 am By Christopher Smith

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