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Unraveling in Style: Meditation on Holy Week
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Thursday, March 28, 2013. Meditation on Holy Week. At one time or another, most. E faced challenges that we didn’t. The pink slip at work. For some, it might. That fraction of a second. When we lost control of the car. Was hungry and we had no money. For others, it might have been. Alcohol had taken control of our. Us down a road of fear and loss. 8220;Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us…”. So wrote Gerald Manley Hopkins. Th a glorious affirmation. I inv...
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Unraveling in Style: 2011-04-17
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Friday, April 22, 2011. I look at my disciples tonight and I wonder. Will they ever understand? James and John continue to jockey for position. Judas is playing games; for the right price. He will throw me under the bus. Even Peter wants to be sure he is not left behind. I think they want to form a corporation. I told them many times that this is not the way. Day after day I tried to teach them. That our Father’s realm is different. I took them into palaces and hovels where.
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Unraveling in Style: How Charles Ives Saved My Soul
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Thursday, September 16, 2010. How Charles Ives Saved My Soul. Thank God for Charles Ives! Without him I couldn’t have gotten through seminary. To be more precise, without his The Unanswered Question. I might have lost my sanity altogether. I discovered this short piece of music as I was plowing through the writings of the Early Church Fathers. (Yes, they were only. Ives wrote The Unanswered Question. In 1906 along with its companion,. Subtitled “A Contemplation of Nothi...
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Unraveling in Style: A Better Way
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Friday, April 22, 2011. I look at my disciples tonight and I wonder. Will they ever understand? James and John continue to jockey for position. Judas is playing games; for the right price. He will throw me under the bus. Even Peter wants to be sure he is not left behind. I think they want to form a corporation. I told them many times that this is not the way. Day after day I tried to teach them. That our Father’s realm is different. I took them into palaces and hovels where.
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Unraveling in Style: 2013-03-24
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Thursday, March 28, 2013. Meditation on Holy Week. At one time or another, most. E faced challenges that we didn’t. The pink slip at work. For some, it might. That fraction of a second. When we lost control of the car. Was hungry and we had no money. For others, it might have been. Alcohol had taken control of our. Us down a road of fear and loss. 8220;Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us…”. So wrote Gerald Manley Hopkins. Th a glorious affirmation. I inv...
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Unraveling in Style: Encountering Jesus in a Pluralistic Age
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Wednesday, August 3, 2011. Encountering Jesus in a Pluralistic Age. I recently received a package in the mail. It contained a stark, gloomy painting of three men hanging on three gruesome crosses on a bleak and lifeless hill. I myself had painted it when I was a child; it was being returned to me by a friend who inherited it from her father, my childhood pastor. For Christians, of course, there is truth in this familiar narrative. But it truly was a religion about. Thus far I...
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Unraveling in Style: Easter Below Zero
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. It was five degrees below zero - Celsius! It was April 1-2, 1990. The USSR was imploding. The country was in the throes of economic collapse. Shelves were bare. Jobs were scarce. During the day, these same Russians stood for hours in long lines and sub-zero temperatures to get even a little food. Their government was reeling from the aftermath of Chernobyl, and reaping the consequences of decades of deceit and broken promises. 8220;Christ is risen!
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Unraveling in Style: A simple story
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Friday, December 12, 2014. At the center of this holiday lies a very simple story. Around it swirl all the commercial and sentimental excesses of the season. At the center of the story are simple people whose world is careening violently out of control. At the center of their. Story lies a baby. All the others - Mary, Joseph, the magi and the shepherds - do everything in their power to protect a newborn child. This is so extraordinary and so cosmic that we still do not fathom...
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Unraveling in Style: Tears are the highest form of prayer…thoughts for September 11, 2011
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Thursday, September 8, 2011. Tears are the highest form of prayer…thoughts for September 11, 2011. There’s a feeling inside. That stirs our madness. To have chosen life. In the fields of sadness. 8220;The terrorists themselves had lost hold of the greater spirituality within life long before they killed themselves and many others,” wrote Rebecca Adamson (Cherokee), the founder of First Nations Development Institute. “From this time forward we must cultivate a ...The Apostle P...
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Unraveling in Style: 2014-12-07
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A blog by Budd Friend-Jones. Friday, December 12, 2014. At the center of this holiday lies a very simple story. Around it swirl all the commercial and sentimental excesses of the season. At the center of the story are simple people whose world is careening violently out of control. At the center of their. Story lies a baby. All the others - Mary, Joseph, the magi and the shepherds - do everything in their power to protect a newborn child. This is so extraordinary and so cosmic that we still do not fathom...
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