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Body Talk: Breakdown Theory
A few years ago I (somewhat grudgingly) took the StrengthsFinder test for work. Of the five strength themes, connectedness, empathy, and relator surprised me the least. Input was a nice way to label what had become my renewed appetite for … Continue reading
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Religion, Relationship, Reductionism
I heard it again recently: the assertion that the Christian faith is a relationship and not a religion. And while I totally get what those who say such a thing are “going for,” I can’t help but feel like there’s … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: “We are people born of sound . . .”
I recently started a reread of Tolkien’s Silmarillion. The first section, which recounts the creation of the world, is beautiful. It involves the creation of all things through music. Genesis 1 also speaks of the creation of the world, this … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: Brother’s Keeper
This week I’ve been listening to Rich Mullins’ Brother’s Keeper. The title track is succinct and wonderfully pointed at something I find extremely difficult but somehow necessary. “Unless you’re pointing to the truth,” indeed.
Reading Scary Close: A Good Guide is Hard to Find
Donald Miller spent most of his last book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, encouraging readers to tell good stories with their lives, to be heroes of a sort. Early on in Scary Close you get a sense of … Continue reading
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Anachronistic Allowance (or: Jesus and Calvinball)
I recently (re)heard the story of Jesus’ response to his disciples after they rebuked the parents who brought their children to Him. Jesus, upon seeing the rebuke, is indignant (ESV) and says: Let the children come to me; do not … Continue reading
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The John Who Loves
From Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What: The way John writes about Jesus makes you feel like the sum of our faith is a kind of constant dialogue with Jesus about whether or not we love Him. I grew … Continue reading
Prefacing Scary Close: The Significance of Place
One of the best parts of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What for me was the preface to the second, expanded edition. One of the significant part’s of Miller’s story that helped me was his simple understanding of place … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: Intersections
I remember well when my friend Cathy introduced me to Blue Like Jazz and the work of Donald Miller. It was early in my time in Hawaii, and it felt like I was finally settling into some kind of routine. … Continue reading
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The Unfinished Line
This past November I spoke at an area church for the beginning of Advent. While I liked the general content of my sermon (and will surely reuse it somewhere down the road), I have to admit that something felt missing … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 