The Prayer Movement and the Renewal of All Things
Today the decentralized prayer movement, with it’s many points of origin, is a global phenomena. Houses of prayer with a vision for laus perennis or continual prayer have sprung up all over the world…
A Cure For Nature Deficit Disorder
I see it sometimes in my own children…or even in myself…When I feel it coming on me: I know that it is time for my medicine. I take a short walk down to the edge of our woods and river and stand for a few moments in complete silence…
A Spring Sermon on the Resurrection
We would listen to his sermon on the resurrection of Jesus and sing hymns in the cold, subtle light of early morning. Today…though I’ve begun listening to a different kind of sermon.
An Eternal Revolution and A Crucified King
Jesus had indeed come to unleash GOD’s kingdom but it was an upside-down kingdom…The greatest irony is that Jesus didn’t come to overthrow Rome but to disarm the empire that is rooted in our human hearts…
Becoming People of a Place
Maybe we need to rethink the accomplishments of travel. Maybe the fewer the places someone has been, the more reason to celebrate. Maybe my mom’s lack of travel has blessed her with something that I cannot understand – a place to call her own…
Church As Sharing Community
His remark caught me by surprise, “if the Church would do that, we wouldn’t need the rest of this.” It was a statement that has stayed with me even to now. The idea that simply by practicing a culture of sharing, recognizing God’s role in our provision for ourselves and others, the Church could change the world. That initially sounds a bit naive. But didn’t it already happen once?…
Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing
In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…
Seeking shalom: Renewing the Regional Foodshed
I’m not sure the exact moment that this happen but at some point over the past five years I became passionate about food and agriculture…This long journey in exploring issues of food, health and agriculture (and how they all relate) has also coincided with a deeper spiritual journey…
Reclaiming the Temple: Looking on to What’s Next
Food is so much more than fuel. Food is connection. It is meant to connect us to the land from which it comes, to the people with whom we share it, the atmosphere in which it is shared, the memories it produces, and mostly with Him who blesses us with it all.
Mom’s “New” Singer Sewing Machine
She inspected it from top to bottom, opening the drawers, admiring the ornate designs of this particular model…Mom’s “new” treadle sewing machine was made in September of 1917…This got me thinking: How many iPods are going to be in good working condition in the year 2105?
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