I know I am suppose to be on a blogging sabbatical, but I couldn’t help but post this: I am hopeful in the political process again.
I started reading Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, and man am I impressed. It’s nearly 340 pages and chuck full of good stuff. The man can write, he [...]
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The following is a letter Dr. Carl Ruby, VP Student Life, sent to the faculty and staff PRIOR to Shane’s arrival. While it doesn’t address their cancellation, it does explain why they wanted him in the first place and what they hoped to accomplish. Again, the reasons for the cancellation are not explained, but I [...]
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I was given permission to post an editorial piece written by Dr. Carl Ruby, Vice President of Student Life, that appeared in the on-campus newspaper, Cedars. As I wrote earlier in an update to my original post, a number of events coagulated last week to cause Dr. Ruby to (momentarily) pull the plug on a [...]
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This is my 240th post.
Hold the applause please until after I receive my award, thank you!
I know it’s a little odd to celebrate my 240th post, but in the process of writing papers for graduate school and down right laziness I didn’t get around to celebrating my 200th. And because I need a kick in [...]
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I am sitting in Day One of a weeklong intensive class on Church Planting. One of my emphases for my Master of Divinity is Church Planting, in addition to Pastoral Studies.
It’s both an exciting time and overwhelming time for me. It’s a time for learning and a time for visioneering and dreaming about a plant [...]
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I lamented why this world seems so screwed up, where God is in the mix of all this screwed-upness, and what I am I to do in the face of all the screwed-upness in my own backyard (which truth be told is in a lovely culdesac in the exurbes of Grand Rapids, very far removed from all the screwed-upness…).
… I think I am still affected by being kicked out of ministry a year and a half ago…and feel I’ll never be good at being a pastor nor be able to “do ministry” again.
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I have left for an end-of-the-year spiritual retreat to get away and along with Jesus until January 1st. I am leaving my laptop at home, but have post-dated 2 posts that I hope you enjoy. One is a re-post from July on Following Jesus the .alt and Apple Way, another favorite that I hope will [...]
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