My Favorite Recent Post on Community

I have become increasingly convinced that the whole of life is intended to be lived in community. I don’t mean the tie dye shirt, hemp underwear, and cow dung houses kind of community, although I am sure that could qualify. (I am also sure that a house made of dung would still be cleaner than [...]

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Working and Resting…and Saving, well on everything

I highly recommend the article ”Physical Work, Spiritual Health,” by Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth. Here’s an excerpt: All honest work can be done for the glory of God. As time passes and we grow in our understanding of God and the uniqueness of this planet, we reject more and more “laborsaving” machines. There is an old [...]

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But Beyond All These…

“After we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the second time in history, man will have discovered fire.” – Teilhard de Chardin

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Emerging

We are all emerging from something. I like the biblical metaphor of emerging from Egypt to Sinai and beyond. The process of becoming a former slave, part of a new people, and a person with a mission. A pivotal question for us all to ask ourselves as we leave behind our past, is whether we [...]

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Community prayer

“Our prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it happens to be prolonged by divine grace. In community, however, let prayer be very short.” – St. Benedict of Nursia

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Our Place, Our Role, Our Transience

It has become increasingly important to me that we view ourselves as within the stream of God-worshippers who have attempted to faithfully serve and to grow in learning and obedience for as long as history has been recorded. To view ourselves as outside that stream is a seed of arrogance and divisiveness that has no [...]

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No Torah or All Torah?

I would like to suggest an answer to the ongoing debate between those who argue “No Torah” and those who argue “All Torah.” The answer to “No Torah” vs. “All Torah” is: KNOW TORAH.

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Progress on The Offerings of Our Lips

Well, this is not actually about progress. I took vacation from my work for all of last week with the goal of completing the final rev of The Offerings of Our Lips. Unfortunately, God apparently had some different thoughts on the matter. At the end of the week preceding I had to rebuild my primary [...]

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