May 2012
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"They Were Right (And Wrong) About the Slippery...
They said that if I entertained the hope that those without access to the gospel might still be loved and saved by God, I would fall prey to the dangerous idea that God loves everyone, that there is nothing God won’t do to reconcile all things to Himself.
They were right. I have.
They said that if I looked for Jesus beyond the party line, I could end up voting for liberals.
They were...
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Rachel Held Evans: "Ask a Gay Christian" →
by Justin Lee, director of the Gay Christian Network.
Just a really fantastic blog post. Go read it. My favorite part (but every word is good):
Given all the nasty rhetoric that has been aimed at the LGBT community — and in that sense, at you personally — by Christian and Christian political leaders, what is it about Christianity itself that’s so compelling that you...
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How-Do-U-Wurds?: "The Fault in Our Stars" by John...
(Book group here.)
Like Alison, I tore through this book in a day. It was just far too engaging to put down. Really well written, with very clear voices, and just the right amount of teenager to it.
I ranted to Alison and Ari almost immediately after starting:
Okay, next choice of book is required to NOT be something where I am horrified to turn the page and find out that the narrator /...
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Poetry: "In Letters Too Large to See"
This is the story of how our Creator has sustained creation, having loved the good-but-not-perfect earth, of having made it needlessly, out of sheer extravagance. This is the story of tripping over ourselves trying to gain power other than that of great love though we tried to leave it behind out of arrogance that we could do it ourselves. This is the story of falling down, down, down to...
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“While many churches say “we want young people” they don’t really. If young...”
– Rev. Adam Copeland, “Reaching Out to Young Adults Will Screw Up Your Church”
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PurposeFairy: 15 Things You Should Give Up in... →
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“1) “It’s all in God’s plan…”
That you lost your baby. That your sister was...”
– Reluctant Xtian, “Five Phrases I Think Christians Shouldn’t Say”
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Dirty Sexy Ministry: "What Priests Want You To... →
In ten words: We work hard and make mistakes; forgive, then help us.
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“A few months ago, I was invited to serve communion at a church in San Diego that...”
– Rachel Held Evans, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”
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“As the temperature rises, we could join the throngs of increasingly disappointed...”
– Rally ‘round the Lynx, boys: It’s a brave new world - TwinCities.com An editorial by Katy McEwen of Brave New Workshop. (via swirlspice)
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“And before you start with the whole “The WNBA is boring because they can’t dunk”...”
– Rally ‘round the Lynx, boys: It’s a brave new world - TwinCities.com An editorial by Katy McEwen of Brave New Workshop. (via swirlspice)
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Trusting my gut
Pastoral Care class, in general, was not always the most enjoyable.
Through twelve weeks, we read and discussed on topics of alcoholism, anxiety, divorce, grief, sexuality, marital counseling, death, depression, suicide, abuse.
A few of us, knowing our limits, had to get up and walk out of the room during different discussions. Sometimes it was just too raw and too real to sit with.
One day,...
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“No matter how great the support of your partner, family, faith community, and...”
– Adam Walker Cleaveland on cancer and theology. (He and his wife lost their twin boys, Micah and Judah, at 20 weeks into her pregnancy.)
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“Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western...”
– John Scalzi, “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is”
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“On the bully attack of the boy with the bleached-blond hair, Romney issued a...”
– Timothy Egan, writing in today’s New York Times, “Romney’s Weasel Problem,” (via inothernews)
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“Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, for example, saw the open purse as a chance...”
– Vikings stadium sausage making. (via edkohler)
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Now is not a time for wondering. Now is not a time for waiting, hoping, fingers pressed to fingers in prayer to whoever might be there to hear. Now is not a time for watching the sun rise and set without you. Now is a time for baking cookies.
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For the past three years, I’ve struggled daily with social anxiety and with periodic episodes of depression.
Even though I believe that every person has intrinsic worth and deserves to be loved, and even though my friends and loved ones constantly demonstrate that they love me, I felt unworthy, unlovable, unwantable.
The pain that results interferes with my schoolwork, my...
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“I can recall a time when you were out with your children you were really with...”
– Hands Free Mama, “How to Miss a Childhood”
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Rev. Marc Ostlie-Olson: "Tattoos Are Revolting" →
My tattoo is revolting. I mean this in both ways. It turns out that I am among the human beings of the world whose bodies react poorly to some of the metal salts used in some of the pigments for some of the inks that people pay other people to stipple into their bodies with an electric needle and no small amount of pain. Red, specifically, and the mercury that provides the color. And my...
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i am late to every morning meeting because according to my calculations i have only twenty-three thousand and fifteen days left to wake up next to you and that seems far too few so i do my best not to waste a single one.
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“A friend of mine gives away bumper stickers of a favorite phrase of his: “Keep...”
– Acts 8:26-40: Castrating Our Customs, by Rev. Adam J. Copeland
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Last night's Evening Prayer and Praise worship
What do you really need to hear?
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[I started last night’s EP&P with a short explanation along these lines:]
In my Prophets class, we’ve talked about the moment of the prophet’s call. There’s a dialogue with God, a discussion, almost an argument really. Remember Moses protesting in the desert: ”But God, what if they ask who has sent me?”...
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“She felt Proginoskes probing wildly. “Meg, when have you been most you, the...”
– Madeleine L’Engle from A Wind in the Door (via hajna)
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Why Feelings of Guilt May Signal Leadership... →
When we think of a typical leader, most of us picture a person who’s sociable and upbeat. But new research puts a wrinkle in that stereotype, revealing an unexpected sign of leadership potential: the tendency to feel guilty. “Guilt-prone people tend to carry a strong sense of responsibility to others, and that responsibility makes other people see them as leaders,” says Becky Schaumberg, a...
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Watcha-vicar-of-minneapolis:
Thank you, Mr. President.
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BREAKING: Obama embraces marriage equality →
OBAMA: I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.