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in trans[-it]lation: Always We Begin Again
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Always We Begin Again. The Benedictine Way of Living-. The First rule is simply this:. And do whatever is done,. In a spirit of Thanksgiving. Abandoned attempts to achieve security,. They are futile,. Give up the search for wealth,. It is demeaning,. Quit the search for salvation,. It is selfish,. And come to comfortable rest. In the certainty that those who. Participate in this life. With an attitude of Thanksgiving. Will receive its full promise. Get Egypt out of us. Abandon...
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in trans[-it]lation
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Thursday, July 16, 2009. Flag(s) in the Assembly: An Uncertain Proposal (from Brad East's blog Resident Theology). Second, America is not merely one among. Many nations, nor merely a nation "with the soul of a church" or one happening to contain many self-professed Christians; America is, in a profound sense in our time, the. And so, as any American knows, what comes along with being (or claiming to be, or acting like) "the best" is a resilient, remarkable, fervent pride. 2) on level with the cross, in w...
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in trans[-it]lation: June 2009
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Monday, June 22, 2009. Involuntary mulling: going back to go forward. I am God gathering the pieces to put something new and old together; a work in progress; a translation being translated, and this is my attempt to translate what's going on inside me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Experiencing the breaking in of New Jerusalem in the abandoned places of the empire. View my complete profile. Blogging community: seeing the kingdom. Seeking the Other, Finding the Self. Denise Thompson, Natural Health.
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in trans[-it]lation: ... or will I just forget?
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Saturday, September 5, 2009. Or will I just forget? Journal entry: approx. July 26, 2007 rural Sukuma territory, Tanzania. I didn't find anyone outside [the huts] except a very small naked baby girl sitting in the dirt, with flies eating at her running snot (accumulated from her recent crying? Which was now collecting sand, her vagina already being covered in sand and dirt. I went and sat beside her, bashfully giving her my thumb to hold onto which she, even more bashfully, took. I can't speak of the tim...
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in trans[-it]lation: July 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009. Who's telling our story? An excerpt from New Monasticism by Johnathan Wilson-Hartgrove. I made bold a few parts that really hit me. Teaching in our local church and talking to pastors and friends in other churches, I've been convinced that you can learn what a church really believes by asking what it teaches its children. On this topic he referenced an encouraging movement in Christian education called Godly Play. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Second, America is not merely one among.
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in trans[-it]lation: who's telling our story?
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Friday, July 17, 2009. Who's telling our story? An excerpt from New Monasticism by Johnathan Wilson-Hartgrove. I made bold a few parts that really hit me. Teaching in our local church and talking to pastors and friends in other churches, I've been convinced that you can learn what a church really believes by asking what it teaches its children. On this topic he referenced an encouraging movement in Christian education called Godly Play. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Ci...
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in trans[-it]lation: America, The people of God and the celebration of Christ
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Thursday, October 22, 2009. America, The people of God and the celebration of Christ. I recently received this e-mail forward and thought I'd share my thoughts, as well as a piece in response from urbanlegend.com. Thought you might be interested in this information from the White House. This isn't a rumor; this is a fact. Http:/ urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/white house christmas ornaments.htm. Baseless rumor. Apart from the announcement last August that an 18- to 19-foot Fraser fir from Sh...
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in trans[-it]lation: November 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Today church was with Crists. Blog, with Dennen's. Prophetic song gone unheard, reality's interrupting way, black coffee's bitter resting grounding, balanced with purified water with half lemon, Weather's religious practice of rejecting God, The Cold and heartless whore that is Mrs. Butterworth. And my own fist; my chest and my broken kite. Here is my attempt. About this world's shameful ignoring. And the communion of self plight. Checkbook clouded sight keeps them. In an effor...
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in trans[-it]lation: May 2009
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Saturday, May 2, 2009. End The University As We Know It (first post in a series concerning needed creative rethinking ideological structures in our society). End the University as We Know It - Mark C. Taylor - New York Times. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Experiencing the breaking in of New Jerusalem in the abandoned places of the empire. View my complete profile. Blogging community: seeing the kingdom. Seeking the Other, Finding the Self. Denise Thompson, Natural Health. Cost of the War in Iraq.
