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Are we really going to talk about pacifism?

Newberg Friends is an interesting Friends meeting. We have many, many committed Quakers; and we have many committed Christians from other backgrounds. I’ve been feeling nudged more in the last couple of years to talk more about our specific core values as Friends, and yet …

Joy

Back on October 26, we were still working through the book of Galatians on Sunday mornings. In chapters 4 and 5, joy becomes a strong theme of Paul’s. Here’s what I shared that day.

Blog-o-lution; Blog-evolve-tion

Yes, the cyclical nature of blogging has proved itself once again; only the troughs between waves of activity seem to be getting longer and longer. For my own sake, I want to post a few of my thoughts about this blog. I began this journey …

One Body

This past Sunday, on our journey through Galatians, it seemed right to deal with the diversity of human creation and the unity Christ brings, destroying every barrier we seem to want to place between each other. I asked Joel Perez, from George Fox University, to …

Off to state!

Today Emily and Talli qualified for state in cross country. They both PR’ed; Emily got seventh in the district with a very fast 20:03; Talli got 20:31. So they will both run Nov. 1 in Eugene at the state meet. And I’ve got more pictures …

Political humility

Last night, Clint Baldwin invited me to be on a panel at the Peace & Justice Symposium that the Peace Center puts on once a month at George Fox University. I had one of those moments during the Q&A afterward where I heard words coming …

Today’s pictures

Convergent Friends #1

I remembered my blog… 😉 And notice the hopeful way I title this post, implying that just maybe, perhaps, this might be the first in a series celebrating Convergent October 2008. Obviously, I have not made time for the blog for quite a long time. …

Advice

I can’t help but notice… Amidst the failure of Lehman brothers, the Merrill Lynch buyout, AIG danger, Bear Stearns; right at the root, here is the common denominator: The financial titans on Wall Street put all their eggs into a basket of mortgaged-back securities and …

Esther

Before I post what I shared last Sunday in worship, I feel like I owe a little bit of an explanation about why it’s been so long between postings of messages. During our corporate fast this summer, our big goal was to set aside normal …